Who doesn’t like a little excitement in their life? If you’re familiar with the phrase, “but wait, there’s more,” then you know it certainly applies to kids’ nesting dolls. These delightful dolls, ...

NEWTON — A wooden doll with delicate hand-painted features opens up to reveal another, and another, and another, cradling at its core a figurine the size of a grain of rice. For Pamela Kruskal, each ...

Under the white walls and blue-and-gold cupolas of the Sergiyev Posad monastery, the row of vendors selling nesting dolls and other traditional Russian handicrafts is noticeably shorter this summer.