Traditional

This category includes Matryoshka dolls decorated with different flowers and other ornaments, for example, matryoshkas, which were made in traditional Polkhov Maidan style or in Gzhel style.

You can also see in this category Matryoshka dolls to be decorated using pyrography technique, also known as pokerwork or wood burning. Pyrography is the traditional art of using a heated tip or wire to burn designs onto natural materials such as wood or leather. The traditional matryoshka dolls also depict Moscow sites, country life and scenes from Russian fairy tales. They are usually quite artistic, sometimes cute and funny with lively faces.

These nesting dolls are excellent Russian souvenirs.