WESTMINSTER — The staff at Forbush Memorial Library, in collaboration with the Museum of Russian Icons, is excited to welcome the community to celebrate Russian nesting dolls — Matryoshkas — on ...

When you think of things that are quintessentially Russian, you might think of those painted wooden nesting dolls stacked one inside another. NPR's John Ruwitch visited the place where most of the ...

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. Matryoshka dolls are a Russian folk art tradition dating back over a ...

Just feet from I-35W in south Minneapolis, the Museum of Russian Art hosts the nation's largest collection of nesting dolls, also known as Matryoshka. The exhibit, “A Thousand Nesting Dolls,” ...

Under the white walls and blue-and-gold cupolas of the Sergiyev Posad monastery, the row of vendors selling nesting dolls and other traditional Russian handicrafts is noticeably shorter this summer.

A major movie studio needed a new vault to protect its irreplaceable negatives for films released after 1982. The studio was against installing a fire-sprinkler system. But a consultant reminded the ...

Matryoshka is a Russian traditional souvenir, also known as a Russian nesting doll. It consists of multiple dolls of decreasing size placed one inside another. The doll Jonathan Kim was presented with ...

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international ...