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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Matryoshka is a Russian traditional souvenir, also known as a Russian nesting doll. It consists of multiple dolls of ...