Vasily Petrovich Zvyozdochkin (russian: Василий Петрович Звёздочкин; 1876–1956) was a Russian

turning Turning is a machining process in which a cutting tool, typically a non-rotary tool bit, describes a helix toolpath by moving more or less linearly while the workpiece rotates. Usually the term "turning" is reserved for the generation ...

craftsman, wood carver and doll maker. He is credited with making the first Russian

matryoshka doll Matryoshka dolls ( ; rus, матрёшка, p=mɐˈtrʲɵʂkə, a=Ru-матрёшка.ogg), also known as stacking dolls, nesting dolls, Russian tea dolls, or Russian dolls, are a set of wooden dolls of decreasing size placed one inside ano ...

(painted by Sergey Malyutin) in 1890.

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Василий Звездочкин - отец русской матрешки (Vasily Zvyozdochkin - the father of Russian Matryoshka)
Russian inventors 1876 births 1956 deaths Dollmakers {{Russia-bio-stub