A matryoshka doll also known as a Russian nesting doll or stacking dolls is a set of wooden dolls of decreasing size placed one inside another.

A set of matryoshkas consists of a wooden figure, which separates, top from bottom, to reveal a smaller figure of the same sort inside, which has, in turn, another figure inside of it, and so on. Matryoshas are hand-made from scratch, starting with wooden blocks, then carved, polished and finally painted. The first Russian nested doll set was carved in 1890 by Vasily Zvyozdochkin and designed by Sergey Malyutin, who was a folk crafts painter.

Matryoshkas are used metaphorically, as a design paradigm, known as the “matryoshka principle” or “nested doll principle”. It denotes a recognizable relationship of “object-within-similar-object”.

3d scanned model using photogrammetry techniques. Pictures were taken using a DSLR Nikon Camera.

The model is available in both OBJ (11mb) and GLTF (17mb) formats.