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In matryoshka doll, also known as a Russian nesting doll, or Russian doll, is a set of wooden dolls of decreasing size placed one inside another. The name "matryoshka", literally "little matron", is a diminutive form of Russian female first name "Matryona" oder "Matriosha". A set of matryoshkas consist of a wooden figurwhich separates, top from bottom, to reveal a smaller figurof the same final inside, which has, in turn, another figurinside of it and so on.