Height - 6 cm. Weight - 0.07 kg.

Height - 9 cm. Weight - 0.1 kg.

Nowadays the trend to use more decorative motifs typical of the traditional centers of Russian culture in painting matrioshka dolls grows more and more popular and obvious.

Matryoshka doll is the most famous and favorite Russian souvenir. The wooden toy got a special fame and love.

Modern decorated Easter eggs in exclusive design are quite an original phenomenon of Russian artistic culture in the end of the 20th century.

Handmade Easter eggs are not the only attribute of this feast. Well known in some European countries Easter hare is in its turn the symbol of prolificacy and fertility.

When Christians present each other with handmade decorated Easter eggs they profess their faith in their own Resurrection.

100% cotton Weight - 0.2 kg.

In 1986 Saroma was the first to manufacture turbo-lighters which flame could be blown out with no wind.

A quilted waistcoat of volumed cut, a waistcoat of napped fabric with a South-American pattern or a vest with a hood are irreplaceable in cold seasons – it’s comfortable and practical sport style.

Waistcoat is not just a piece of clothing, it is more a speaking accessory. You can arrive to a party in a strict suit, impeccable jacket and a waistcoat with some extravagant pattern (e.

Waistcoat was in constant change. Unstable were not only its length and cut but the form of notch pockets, buttons and fastener.

Byzantine theologian and philosopher Ivan Damaskin said that heaven and earth are similar to an egg: shell - heaven, membrane – clouds, white – water, yolk – earth.

Decorated Easter eggs that are sold in GoldenGrail represent the best traditions of Russian lacquer art and make fine presents.

Waistcoat is a simple thing. It is just a piece of clothing without sleeves but look how beautiful and poetic it is! This name came into use in France in the 17th century and is descended from the name of a personage in comic theatre – Gil.

All kinds of things are suitable for decorating waistcoats: metal rivets and fringe on leather rockers’ vests, small jerkins of velvet as a sign of the gallant epoch, or jackets of jacquard with a lining with tiny flowers, or a waistcoat made of satin with a tiny collar-shawl, or vests called “granny’s gift” and knitted of rove.

It may be so that comfort and universality requirements for clothes account for anticipation of cold season.

There haven’t probably existed a more comfortable piece of clothing. Waistcoat remains in fashion for some centuries.

Children’ fashion is not so profitable as adults’ fashion but we cannot forget about this. GoldenGrail offers you unique birthday gifts online for your children.

On conquering the world the waistcoat began to change. Today a single-breasted traditional man’s vee waistcoat is in fashion.

Modern waistcoat differs greatly from its prototype – man’s vest that is part of today’s three-piece suit.

In the 16th century in England camisole turned into waistcoat. This fashion emerged under influence of a group of aristocratic youth that tried to make themselves conspicuous and made a cult out of care about appearance.

If you are looking for the best gifts online you’re in right place. GoldenGrail presents waistcoats with unusual pattern.

Dolce&Gabbana try to experiment in the hunting style. Their waistcoats are made of coarse cotton fabric or broadcloth in ecological colors and have three pairs of pockets.

Waistcoats are not just a pieces of clothing, they could serve as original Russian souvenirs. Besides waistcoat is a real boon for designers because it gives a lot of space for experiments.

For a long time waistcoat was part of three-piece suit and was sewed of the same fabric as the trousers and jacket.

Height - 8 cm.

What do foreigners think about Russia? All its cities are covered by ice, bears in fur coats and caps with earlaps are walking along roads, drinking vodka and playing on balalaikas.

The three firebreathing horses whom their driver hardly keeps - embodiment of free soul of the Scythians - ancestors of Slavs.

length - 18 cm

New Year is the most mysterious holiday that opens up the whole world of fairy tales and magic. Trustful children, self-assured teens, businesslike adults and superstitious old folks – they all look forward to the holiday to come.

What can be advised to an atheist, a doubter or a person who is not too religious? Just take Christmas as a holiday of hope.

The Pavloposad shawl manufacture is remarkable for its rich, more than a 200-years history. It is quite enough to mention the fact that one of its founders was canonize by the Russian Orthodox Church.

sizes 14 x 9 cm.

size 13 x 8 cm.

There are some variants of Malutin’s nesting dolls: “A Girl with a Rooster” and “An Old Woman with a Sack” that are exhibited in the Polenov’s Museum-Manor.

length - 26 cm

length - 14 cm

Best Russian crafts today in the online gift shop GoldenGrail: all possible Russian souvenirs and first class handmade dolls: matryoshka, kerchief, Russian lacquer boxes, glass gifts, wooden toys and of course lovely custom dolls like this Peddler souvenir.

The bears love honey very much. Why? Who will understand? The history of love of honey and the Bear was considered in detail in the literature and hardly deserves additional illumination.

There are no people in the world who don’t know Mickey that’s why we decided to present to his fans and other people Mickey-matryoshka.

Girls would surely be happy to get such a wonderful matryoshka doll as a present. Betty Boop is a flirtatious, seductive cartoon character of 1930s animated short films produced by Max Fleischer and directed by his brother Dave.

A whimsical and callous prince is turned into an ugly wooden doll – Nutcracker, and only a little girl with kind heart can free him from evil charm.

Here you can try to appreciate whether it is a good idea to make matrioshka dolls according to cartoons motifs.

Despite its Moscow origin the real homeland of matreshka is Sergiev Posad – the greatest center of cottage toy industry in Russia.

height - 7 cm.

Many craftsmen prefer to make the tool for manufacturing matryoshka dolls themselves. They use for it laminated spring steel.

Till the 90-s of the previous century nesting dolls were turned and painted in the Moscow studio “Children’s Education” but after it was closed the manufacture was mastered by studios in Sergiev Posad situated near Moscow.

The attempts to use the surface of Russian nesting dolls on which the painter could picture this or that image, no matter whether it was a fairy tale or a landscape, ware made in the time when the Russian matryoshka art was only rising.

In 1900 Russian matreshka was exhibited at Paris international show where it got a medal and worldwide acknowledgment.

Nowadays the symbols of power and courage pictured on nesting dolls grow more and more popular. Some traditional Russian matryoshka dolls paintings of the beginning of the 20th century appeared: epic heroes in chain armors and helmets.

Though the first Sergiev Posad nesting dolls cost very much they earned both adults’ and children’s love.

It is believed that first matryoshka dolls appeared in the Moscow studio “Children’s Education” that belonged to M.

Step by step the Semenovo nesting doll type formed completely. This style was different from the famous Sergiev Posad nesting doll painting manner.

Russian nesting doll is the most famous and favorite of all Russian souvenirs for many people both in the country and abroad.

Now you can come across many nesting dolls painted in Gzhel, Palekh design. It can be said that the art of modern Russian matrioshka dolls accumulates the whole wealth of Russian national arts and crafts traditions.

There are some reasons to think that the idea of matreshka doll was borrowed or at least Russia cannot be called the initial homeland of wooden doll and matreshka is one.

The first Sergiev Posad matrioshka dolls in their form and painting tried to depict all that interesting life in Russia – girls in sarafans with baskets, sickles, bunches of flowers or in short fur coat with a shawl; Old Believers in typical clothes with attributes of Raskolnik devotions; a bridegroom with his fiancee holding candles; a herdboy with a pipe; an old man with a full beard.

In the first period of development of Russian matryoshka dolls the turner played an essential role. Having a great deal of experience and skill the turners who could turn nesting doll with superfine walls and considered themselves to be real creators of marioshkas.

In the latest time a lot of studios for making matrioshkas have appeared in Moscow and Moscow region where there is a large market for this ware.

When you paint an eye to your Daruma you seem to engross your (and Daruma’s) attention to some only to you two visible goal.

Carved and painted barins’ wives and hussars were distinguishable through their originality, true to life character and great quality.

During a decade matreshka handicraft in Sergiev Posad developed as one of the types of original author’s art.

Many craftsmen tried to experiment with the form of Russian matryoshka doll: they turned figures of the Old Russian helmet and conoidal figures.

As hundred years ago now in Sergiev Posad and Semenovo whole families painted matrioshka dolls. Factory-made nesting doll turned out to be noncompetitive and too expensive.

height - 16 cm.

The constructive principle of Russian matrioshka doll consists in the structure of a intercalated egg.

Matrjoshka made by foto - application method. Another details has painted. Height - 17 cm. Weight - 0.

There are also a lot of nesting dolls with patterns picturing Russian picturesque landscapes. Very often for this famous pictures by Russian landscape painters such as A.

The early Sergiev Posad nesting dolls win with their warmth and naivete, they create a very simple and unpretentious image.

length - 25 cm

length - 18 cm

Today's fashion is very tolerant, it even encourages all kinds of attempts people make to look pretty.

height - 15 cm.

According to researchers the history of the enterprise traces back to 1795 when the silk factory appeared.

Everybody knows that Russian tea drinking ceremony is closely connected with samovar.The history of russian samovar runs to 300 years, so this device has long traditions.

Here the best online gift shop GoldenGrail presents to its clients a great variety of cool Russian T-shirts, souvenirs of best quality and in original Russian design.

Height - 26 cm. Weight - 1.85 kg.

The charm for keys, exclusively functional product, can serve as a fine small gift. The streamline form and big enough sizes allow to hold conveniently it in a hand and quickly to find in a pocket or in a handbag Key chain is executed from wood.

Flowers (mainly roses) are still most actively used as decorative elements, but some modernist patterns have been added: in this way such headscarves as “Abstractions”, “Illusions”, “Other Worlds”, “Reflection” that bring us to thoughts about the unknown.