Matryoschkas everywhere (Moscow, Russia 29/06)

This famous souvenir dolls are carved out from Linden or Birch wood and
there is plenty of that in Russia like we could observe during our train
journeys. Orginally they go back to the Japanese Fukurokuju dolls which were
imported into Russia in the end of the 19th Century. The name "matryoshka"
actually comes from the typical Russian female name "Matrona" (from Latin
matrona).