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 ...

SERGIYEV POSAD, Russia — Inna Kashnikova found her calling during a fourth-grade trip to a factory in this picturesque town that produces matryoshki, the wooden nesting dolls that are synonymous with ...

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 ...