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Matryoshka-Wasaki ...

Is this Siberian cold that makes us want to speak
these objects Limito-kitsch?
the matriochkas

Who has not had these dolls in his hands?
And let's face it:

the principle of nesting fascinated us as much

their round face with big eyes

and bright colors!

But you know that their origin comes from Japan?

The first dolls dating from 1890.
However, the concept of nested objects was already
in Russia, having been applied to apples and wood
Easter egg as Faberge, court jeweler created every year for Tsar.

is attributed to the beginning Sergei Malioutine,

painter in a craft shop popular

have discovered one day a series a series of dolls Japanese wood representing the 7 gods of happiness
the largest doll was a bat god

and nested inside were six other deities.

Inspired, Malioutine drew version Russian toy
who was born Dand shop and studio of Anton Mozorov.

The first matryoshka, shaped with a hinge
is a peasant woman holding a rooster *.

Doll "mother" was called "Matryona"

and his "girls" were given the nickname of "matryoshka".

* The rooster was once a symbol of fertility and prosperity in Russia as
in Europe where pranced his effigy in all weather vane on top of the towers ...

In 1900, MA Mamontova,
the wife of a wealthy industrialist and philanthropist

presented the dolls at the Exposition Universelle in Paris

and the toy earned a bronze medal .

Shortly after, many other parts of Russia began to develop different styles matriochkas .

A series of Russian dolls follows a particular theme:
young peasant

characters from traditional stories,

religious iconography,

Soviet leader of ...

These will be especially popular in markets

during perestroika.

The dolls represented Gorgatchev M. L. Brezhnev
N. Khrushchev, Stalin and Lenin finally
(I. Andropov and Chernenko K. APPEARED almost never because of the brevity of their mandates ...).

Today, updated versions begin with
V. Putin then continue with B. Yeltsin ...

But the most traditional and old are sets representing families from 3 to 10 dolls

(although there are up 30).

Each member was personified and most
is traditionally a woman wearing a sarafan

(Russian traditional dress) and a shawl holding a nest

the smallest being a baby usually

7mm that do not open.

Each doll symbolizes fertility, prosperity and happiness.

The artistic side of the old dolls resides in:

• by the design and choice of patterns: flowers, animals ...
• by traditional colors: green, yellow and blue.
• by the fact that they are carved from a single piece of wood. The most popular are bass wood, soft wood that does not crack but most are birch.

There are collectors although not
name yet assigned: matriochkaphiles?

cf. http://galerie.matriochkas.free.fr/index.htm

Whatever, this collection is cheerful, lively, playful

and brings us back to enface (as often ...)

Influenced by this section and still not warmed

we will celebrate tonight at Candlemas Slav ;

live blinis et vodka:
Cheers!
Za V a chè zdar o vié!
(À la vôtre! )