Hand Crafted Nesting Dolls Note, the dolls are no longer for sale, for information purposes only. Traditional Russian Matryoshka Dolls are made in many styles and sizes. In general there are two types of manufacturing. They are produced mass quantities using large staffs and basic automation, and by smaller more traditional groups of artists. No-one knows when the first Matryoshka Dolls were made. However it is commonly thought that nested figures were first used by Chinese or Japanese mon ...