Author Gail Buyske has been collecting Russian folk art since her first trip to Russia in 1975 as a college Russian language student. As a grown-up banker with degrees from Middlebury, Princeton, and Columbia, she lived in Moscow for three years. She is the editor of The Art of the Russian Matryoshka, published by Vernissage Press. This is her first book for children. Gail, her husband, and her matryoshka dolls live in New York.
Illustrator Natasha Voronina is an artist who lives in Sergiev Posad, a town outside of Moscow where the first Russian nesting doll was made over one hundred years ago. Natasha studied at the Technical College of Toys and is known for the unique and heart-warming style of her matryoshka dolls. This is her first book, also. Natasha has three children, all of whom are studying to be artists.
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