It is a special wooden toy in Russia, generally consisting of more than ten hollow wooden dolls with the same pattern, usually cylindrical, flat at the bottom and upright. The colors are red, blue, green and purple. The most common pattern is a girl dressed in Russian national costume, named Matt Rosca, which has become a general term for such dolls.

/kloc-in the 4th century, dolls originated in the ancient Russian town of Zagor (загорск), 70km south of Moscow. Because of the exquisite carving and painting skills of generations of craftsmen and the accumulation of Russian national culture, they are loved by children and big friends all over the world.

Doll legend:

According to legend, there are two cousins in the Russian nation who grew up together. Later, their cousins left their hometown. Because they miss their cousins in their hometown, they make wooden dolls every year, and the dolls they make get bigger every year. A few years later, he returned to his hometown and gave the doll to his cousin. Later generations imitated it as a doll, also known as an auspicious doll.

Another said: Matryona and Matriosha are very common female names in the old Russian countryside. Scholars point out that these two names contain the Latin root "mater", which means mother. It is usually a strong and capable Russian female image with a slightly fat figure and many children. Moreover, there are so many small dolls hidden in the chubby wooden dolls that the dolls naturally become the names of beautifully carved and brightly colored wooden dolls.