Gary Mullen


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History of Russian Dolls

The Beginning During the 1890's a painter of Russian folk crafts, Sergei Maliutin produced the world's first matryoshka doll. He was inspired to make the dolls as, when visiting the Japanese island of Honsu he came into possession of the Japanese 'fukuruma' doll. These dolls depicted an old Japanese man doll which inside contained nesting dolls which decreased in size. Maliutin decided to draw a Russian version of the doll in his... (posted by Gary 2 years 281 days ago.)