4:00AM Tuesday Jun 02, 2009 By Miriam Elder The Russian nesting doll, the pride of a nation, is in trouble. For more than 200 years, the matryoshka has come to symbolise Russian handicraft at its finest, the brightly-painted dolls within dolls also revealing something of the mystery and complexity of the famed Russian soul. Today, as the country suffers...
photo: Public Domain / Sergiev Posad Museum of Toys, Russia
