Every year at the world famous New Mexico Balloon Fiesta, The Russian Store has a booth, one of our best sellers is the Aeolos Hot Air Balloon Nesting Doll. Aeolos is one of the many popular balloons that fill up the New Mexican sky with a rainbow of colors. It’s appropriately named after the Greek God of the Wind (actually perhaps the slavic god of the wind Stribog might be more appropriate for The Russian Store 
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How the heck do I get these Nesting Dolls open?
When we receive e-mails or calls on how to open up our Nesting Dolls, we usually direct them to our blog post entitled “How to Open Up Your Nesting Dolls.” However, it’s always better to show, rather than tell (after all, monkey see, monkey do!) So here’s a video on opening up our large, and normal sized Nesting Dolls!
Nesting Dolls always want to share their feelings, and talk, and sometimes that causes relationship problems when they’re with other dolls.
Be sure to check out our enormous collection of nesting dolls that are sure to open up for you!
Nesting Dolls in Space: Ground Control to Matryoshka Tom
Everyone knows that Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space, and Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon, people even know of Laika, the first dog in space, but few know the legend of the first Nesting Doll in space … probably because the mission was a horrible failure, and truly a space oddity.
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The Good, the Bad, & the Babushka
Nesting Dolls are widely associated with Russia, but few know of their history in the wild west.
Come take a gander at our collection of nesting dolls; they’re the best in the east, and the west!
Nesting Dolls occasionally need some psychological assistance.
Why don’t you have a look at our nesting dolls they’re sure to take a load off your mind!
I saw a movie called Transsiberian the other day, and noticed that nesting dolls played a role in the plot, and were used in a way that was most certainly non-traditional. It got me thinking of other non-traditional ways that one could use a Nesting Doll. This was what I came up with:
So, you’ve acquired a Russian Nesting Doll, hopefully from The Russian Store, and you’ve brought it home, only to pose the question to yourself, “How exactly do I open this thing?” Well we’re here to help you out, with this guide to opening up your new Russian Nesting Dolls.
The Russian Store offers the abundant collection of genuine Russian nesting dolls. These dolls, also called Matryoshka, are very popular and endearing items of Russian folk art, fashioned entirely of natural products and hand-painted. Each nesting doll is completely unique. In the appearance of the nesting dolls offered by The Russian Store, masters embodied characters taken from life, depicting peasant-girls, fiancés and brides, as well as the modern life characters and historical persons.
