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A matryoshka doll or a Russian nested doll, also called a stacking doll or Babooshka doll, is a appointed of dolls of decreasing sizes placed alone inside the other
- "Matryoshka" is a derivative of the Russian female first denomination "Matryona", which is traditionally associated with a fat, hulk Russian woman.
During Perestroika, the leaders of the Soviet Union became a common theme depicted on matreshki. Starting with the largest, Mikhail Gorbachev, then Leonid Brezhnev (Yuri Nesting Dolls Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko almost never appear due to the concise length of their respective terms), then Nikita Khrushchev, Josef Stalin and finally the smallest, Vladimir Lenin. Newer versions start with Vladimir Putin and then follow with Boris Yeltsin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Joseph Stalin and then Vladimir Lenin.
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