Thread: Russian Dolls!?!? come on!

I thought you were going to comment on cheap matryoshka dolls being made in China.

Anyway, Lifetime network is famous for their movie of the week about some distraught women. Not as exploitative as MTV (I remember music on there) or Bravo (drama queens). I might catch an episode but I generally skip the channel when I'm looking at the TV Guide or channel surfing.

"Reality" TV is bottom of the barrel but I do like "Deadliest Catch".

Originally Posted by capecoddah

I thought you were going to comment on cheap matryoshka dolls being made in China.

I bought a matryoshka that was made in Belarus. Does that count as genuine? It was for my niece who is two years old. It was super cute - It had SOOOOO many dolls in it, and each had a different facial expression. The smallest one was less than a centimetre. My sister says that my niece absolutely loved it.I also bought her a cheburashka t-shirt and lots of linen clothes made in Belarus. Really cute and fantastic value...

These people don't seem to have any culture aside from the language and food. They treat everyone bad including calling their own mom "bitch" twice.

Originally Posted by Hanna

I bought a matryoshka that was made in Belarus. Does that count as genuine?

Why not? The "genuine Russian" matryoshka is less than 150 years old -- invented in 1890 by Sergei Malyutin, a professional Russian artist and architect. And the design is said to have been at least partly inspired by a Japanese "nested" doll that depicted a Buddhist monk with smaller monks inside, although it can be argued that Malyutin's redesign improved on the Japanese concept in some ways.

It's also possible that the story has gotten confused over time and that the Japanese original that inspired Malyutin was not a doll, but a set of nested cups or boxes. Or, it could be that the original Japanese doll was a type called daruma, which has a round shape like a matryoshka, but does not have smaller dolls inside it.

ЗЫ: Almost a century later, in the 1980s...





...the Russians were still ripping off the Japanese))))))

kidkboom!! you saved me from actually watching this show.. My daughter and I saw the teaser commercial that was about this guy giving a girl are hard time saying something like "what do you know about fashion and modeling? You think you Russians invented it?" and we thought it was about Russian Models IN Russia so we were going to watch it. Thank goodness you posted about it and I saw your thread!

When we want a good laugh... we watch Toddlers and Tiaras .. now that show makes me always feel like I'm a great mom!