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7/9 Piece Sets - Highly Detailed Miniature 7 Piece Set - (AA-M-7-2)

The height of the main doll is approximately 13.5 cm (5.4’), made from Linden tree, paints and varnish finish. This is a very beautiful set of Russian dolls, a true piece of art! This is a set to order, please contact us with the Catalogue number for delivery times.

This is a very beautiful set of Russian dolls, a true piece of art! The faces are very beautiful and detailed. The girls are wearing a traditional Russian women’s headwear “kokoshnik”, and have traditional Russian hair braid which has always been considered as an essential element of Russian femininity and womanhood. In the center part of each doll there is a miniature paining of young people walking in the forests, singing and spending time together in nature. As this is a set to order, please contact us with the Catalogue number for delivery times.

The set is made from the Linden tree. The trees are cut in the springtime when they are full of sap, then stripped and kept in the open air for two years. Each doll’s shape or ‘blank’ is created on a lathe with the smallest figurine, which will not be taken apart, made first. Before the doll is painted it is coated with a starchy glue to make the surface perfectly smooth, which also prevents the paint from smudging. They are then hand painted, by a team or individually, by highly skilled artisans, lacquered and then set to dry in special drying rooms.

As all our Russian dolls are hand painted by artists there may be variations and differences between those pictured on our website and the ones you will receive. Every doll is unique as artists tend to add something different to each and every doll set they paint. That’s why Russian dolls are somehow a reflection of a mood of the artist painting it in that particular moment. Russian dolls, as in life itself, may have their own features, characters, colours and moods and can be truly unique to you. All our Russian dolls are hollow inside (apart from the last, smallest doll of each set), they all open in half and fit inside each other.

Please note that there may be some bright spots on the pictures of some Russian dolls on our website, resulting from photo camera flash and lights. The actual Russian dolls that you will receive will not have any of those spots.