Tuesday 2 November 2010

Matryoshka

A babushka doll, also known as a Russian nesting doll or a matryoshka doll, is a set of dolls of decreasing sizes placed one inside the other. The word matryoshka (матрёшка) is derived from the Russian female first name Matryona, and babushka is the Russian word for "grandmother, granny".

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