Russian dolls are actually Japanese in origin, and are just another example of Russian cultural theft like their famous 'onion domes' which are Islamic in origin
In the C19th, they began to realise that by obsessively aping western European culture for hundreds of years they had all but lost their own, and made up a load of stuff as 'traditional Russian' so they could have 'indigenous folk art' for nationalist pride. Basically a kind of 'fake news' Arts & Crafts movement.

Which, I think we can surely all agree, is interesting, Queef.
( Queef Smegwin U r a 🔔🔚, Thu 3 Sep 2020, 13:53, archived)

I'm afraid not m8, no

( Queef Smegwin U r a 🔔🔚, Thu 3 Sep 2020, 13:55, archived)

Christ just shut the fuck up will you no one is reading all that shit you type

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 3 Sep 2020, 14:00, archived)

Art Nouveau, or Deco, or Postmodernism.
One of those, fuck knows, it's been 20 years since I studied it and I've had no need for that knowledge since. One of them, anyway, was basically just appropriating the art styles of other previous movements. Approaching architecture like pick and mix sweets, just combining any old shit together, no matter how awful. Then posting the result on /board.
(dribble, Thu 3 Sep 2020, 14:04, archived)

+on a forklift

( Queef Smegwin U r a 🔔🔚, Thu 3 Sep 2020, 14:06, archived)

It was interesting to me

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Thu 3 Sep 2020, 14:15, archived)

Sir Walter Scott did similar things in Scotland
A load of things we think are 'traditional Scottish' were made up in the 1820s and later
( Queef Smegwin U r a 🔔🔚, Thu 3 Sep 2020, 14:22, archived)

aye, like Tennents lager, scotch pies, going back to school in August, and the procurator fiscal.

(morning Hairy biscuit!, Thu 3 Sep 2020, 14:32, archived)

This is interesting, sorry I've only just had time to read it.

(Agent Pr1ck llǝɯs ǝɥʇ sʇI ˙ǝɔɐld sᴉɥʇ ǝʇɐɥ l, Thu 3 Sep 2020, 15:28, archived)