George Clooney Nesting Doll from the TV Series ER - Price: $45.0 (Theodore)

George Clooney Nesting Doll from the TV Series ER - Price: $45.0

George Clooney Nesting Doll from the TV Series ER Matryoshka doll Russian nesting doll (synonyms - nested doll stacking doll) or matryoshka as it is sounded in Russian - probably the most popular Russian national souvenir. The wide fame was won by Russian matryoshka (nesting doll) far abroad. At all large exhibitions fairs the festivals held in different counties of the world amusing cheerful nesting dolls were most fascinating exhibits. Also it seems that matroyshka nesting doll has come to us from a gray-haired antiquity from the world of legends and fairy tales. Actually this wooden doll is about hundred years. It was born in Moscow in 1890. It was a time when Russia was looking for a new national art style and a lot of artists worked along with folk craftsmen Russian wooden dolls within smaller dolls were called matryoshka. In Old Russian among peasants the name Matryona or Matriosha was a very popular female name. Scholars say this name has a Latin root mater and means Mother . This name was associated with the image of a mother of a big peasant family who was very healthy and had a portly figure. Subsequently it became a symbolic name and was used specially to image brightly painted wooden figurines made in a way that they could taken apart to reveal smaller dolls fitting inside one another. There are several traditional styles in which matryoshkas are made these are Segiev-posad matryoshka and semyonova matryoshka. And of course there much more contemporary styles now a day you can find matryoshka with faces of the football players or famous politicians Disney characters and so on. When you purchase matryoshka just remember that it is an art and a toy at the same time and that it should bring joy. Pay Pal is the only form of payment I will accept over the Internet supply your physical address and I will compute the shipping charges and let you know how much. Pay Pal info will be forwarded once agreement on price is accepted. Once payment is received I will mail item to you. Cash will be accepted on face-to-face transactions.