Comments on: Matryoshkas

By: matryoshka

matryoshka — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:38:02 +0000

I have this … I have that …

I have the whole store full of matryoshkas! Sorry, could not help, just joking :)))

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:32:06 +0000

I bought a set of four dolls and painted them myself to look like the four seasons.

By: Sara

Sara — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 23:51:59 +0000

I don’t have any, but at my bridal shower my aunt gave her granddaughter (age 3 1/2 and my flower girl) a set and she would not be parted from them all afternoon. Open them all up, stack them all back. Repeat.

By: TracyB

TracyB — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 22:16:17 +0000

I personally own one set, the largest being Tsar Nicholas II, going down in size with his wife and the children, however the smallest is Rasputin.

I have bought sets for my children, my daughter has a kitten set (and each has pointy kitten ears) and my son has a Star Wars set. I have also bought other sets for gifts for other children, but usually the parents put them away and make them “to look at” toys, not to play with. Doesn’t make it such a cool gift then!

By: Allison

Allison — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:20:57 +0000

I have the leaders too, ending with Gorby. He was still in office at the time. I don’t know what the others are like, but mine all have distinctive features to poke fun at each leader. Stalin has a bleeding heart, Brezhnev makes a hand gesture that means he’s a heavy drinker, Kruschev has a shoe and an ear of corn, and Gorbachev has his hat held out to collect coins.

Regarding playing with the dolls: when my nephew (no eighteen) was a toddler he couldn’t wait to get his hands on them when he visited me. I tease him about his “playing with Auntie’s dolls”

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:30:30 +0000

We have the Russian leaders too, but with Yeltsin as the second largest and Gorbachev as the largest. My sister purchased it in Moscow in the month before the coup in 1991. We knew that weeks later they switched so that Yeltsin was the big one.

By: natlynn

natlynn — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:59:35 +0000

Ooh! I have the Russian leaders too!
I also have a beautiful set with characters from the Nutcracker ballet.

By: cousin

cousin — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:53:01 +0000

I love mine that my brother brought me back from Russia. It sits on my desk at work next to my German beer stein. I like a good theme.

By: Anita

Anita — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:45:37 +0000

My favorites are the ones from Sesame Street:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNQV45Wichw

By: WizardBoy

WizardBoy — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:45:39 +0000

I have 2, soon to get a third:

Set One
3 Bob Uecker dolls, featuring his different “teams” — Braves, Cardinals, Brewers.

Set Two
3 Milwaukee Brewer youthful infielders — the young crowd: Hall, Fielder, Hardy, Weeks. (What is unique about these is that there were different versions of the set, e.g., Fielder wasn’t always the “biggest” doll.)

Set Three (coming next week!)
3 Retro Milwaukee Braves – Aaron, Matthews, Spahn

Milwaukeeans love free ANYTHING. And the baseball team has capitalized on that.