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 ...

Who doesn’t like a little excitement in their life? If you’re familiar with the phrase, “but wait, there’s more,” then you know it certainly applies to kids’ nesting dolls. These delightful dolls, ...

When Vasily Zvyozdochkin invented the first Russian nesting dolls all the way back in 1890, I don't imagine he ever envisioned this: Souvenir from prague @RAIDERS ...

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Sitting at the China-Russia-Mongolia junction, Manzhouli in Hulunbuir League, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, has designed a matryoshka-themed square where locals and tourists can experience ...

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 ...