Authentic Russian Nesting Dolls by Svetlana Lukina

Set of 5 Matryoshka dolls by Svetlana Lukina, photograph courtesy of the artist

I wrote about this Matryoshka set in April 2019 here and posted the above photo on my Instagram page with the caption, "Not mine, but I wish they were."  I must have spoken this set into existence into my collection that day.

As blessings would have it, I was able to purchase the artist's first nesting dolls that feature brown-skinned Victorian-era children in June of this year.  They arrived from Russia on July 22, 2019, and are more magnificent in person than I could have ever imagined!

Much larger than I had realized initially, they range from 2-to-7 inches.  In addition to the brown-skinned children on the front, draperies are painted on the back of all except the second doll, which has a beautiful field scene.  I have attempted to capture the front and back of each doll and have also included comparison photos to illustrate the size of this set.

The unnested set is shown with a blank set of nesting dolls.  This set is twice the size of the blank set (the largest doll shown, in the blank set, is 4 inches tall).

The unnested set is shown in a size comparison with Madame Alexander's 8-inch Africa doll.

The front of dolls 1 through 5 is shown here.

Nesting dolls from the back

The following pictures are individual photos of the dolls from the front and back in side-by-side angles.

Doll 1, front and back

Doll 2 from the front, back, and side

Doll 3, front and back

Doll 4, front and back

Doll 5, front and back

Again, they are magnificent works of art!  A machine-created Russian nesting doll set in any size is no comparison to an individually hand-painted, one-of-a-kind set by a Russian artist!

I hope you enjoyed the pictures.

Svetlana Lukina sells her dolls through Etsy here.

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