RUWITCH: Stacking dolls are important here. There are silhouette statues of them at a major road junction and bright paintings of them on some of the town walls. There have been estimates in Chinese ...

The matryoshka or Russian nesting doll, one of the world’s most famous objects, was originally conceived as a children's toy, but over time became something far greater. "There are many versions of ...

Russian nesting dolls or Matryoshkas are among the most well-known symbols of Russia and a favorite souvenir for tourists. It seems like Matryoshka has been around since prehistoric times, so it comes ...

SEMYONOV, Russia -- There are nesting dolls everywhere in Russia. Nesting dolls that look like kings or queens, nesting dolls that look like Vladimir Putin, nesting dolls that, of course, look like ...

“In Russia, think about the cold white winter nights, minus 40 degrees outside. You’re somewhere in the middle of Siberia. It’s all covered with snow,” explains Marina Forbes. With the bitter weather ...

Fingerless gloves, ranch dressing, and Russian nesting dolls: These are three things I have no use for in life and can happily live without. Yet one of these things is not like the other; one of those ...

Matryoshka is recognized around the world, a traditional Russian mother figure dressed in a bright scarf. Looking out with mournful, painted eyes, she sometimes appears sad but offers comfort with her ...

A picture taken on July 15 shows traditional Russian wooden nesting matryoshka dolls displayed at an exhibition in Moscow. Photo: AFP From cheery peasant girls in Tsarist times to Soviet-era ...

If you want to know what’s going on inside Donald Trump—and who doesn’t, these days?—you have to ask Halina Danchenko. Danchenko was born one month after President Trump, to a Russian father and a ...

Thanks largely to De Beers, which was created in the late 19 th century to control the diamond trade, most people think diamonds are a lot scarcer than they actually are. But an extraordinary diamond ...