It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no, it’s a nesting doll!

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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Nesting Dolls Just Want You to Open Up

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!

You Need to Know the Legend of The First Doll in Space

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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Nesting Dolls and the Wild West

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!

Tell me about your Matryoshka

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!

Consider the impact of Nesting Dolls on Philosophy

The Tao of Matryoshka

Take a peak at our nesting dolls!

Odd Uses for Nesting Dolls

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:

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Russian Fairytale: Kolobok, Round Bun

Once upon a time an old man and woman lived in a village.

One day the old man said to the old woman: “Grandmother, go scrape in the flour-tin and sweep in the corn bin, perhaps you will get enough flour to make a Kolobok.”

The old woman went off and scraped round the flour-tin and swept the bottom of the corn-bin and she got a couple of handfuls of flour.

She mixed the floor with sour cream and shaped it into a Kolobok – a kind of little round bun. Then she ba

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Nesting Dolls – Open Up A Piece of Russian Culture

The History of Nesting Dolls

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Russian Fairytale: Masha and the Bear

Once upon a time there lived an old man and woman who had a granddaughter named Masha. One day some friends of Masha’s decided to go to the forest to gather mushrooms and berries and they came to Masha’s house to ask her to go with them.

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