Nesting dolls are the best known and most popular of all Russian souvenirs. Nesting dolls, at first glance, appear quite simple but are full of unexpected sense. Nesting doll as a form of folk art possess tremendous potential to convey the deepest sense of the events developed in space and time. The Russian word for these wooden dolls is "matryoshka", but they are also called matrioshka, matryoshkas, babushka dolls, babushka's doll, matroshka, matryushka, and stacking dolls.