Political Nesting Dolls.
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Political Leaders of the USSR and Russia.
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Newly elected (March 2008) third, and current, President Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (who is also a British hard rock fan), his predecessor the serious "emotion-collector" and judoist, Vladimir Putin, followed by the tipsy Boris Yelsin, the dapper Mikhail Gorbachev and the personality cult target, Leonid Brezhnev. Medvedev's image is on the white, blue and red Russian flag. The names of the Presidents and General Secretaries are written in Russian. Partially painted, faces are silk screened. Excellent condition. Made in Moscow.
5 nest. 7" down to 1 1/2".
[#PD-LKR6A]. $39.95
Political Leaders of the USSR and Russia.
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Leaders of Russia beginning with the recently retired Putin, his predecessors Yeltsin and Gorbachev, the totalitarian Stalin and founder of Soviet Communism, Vladimir Ilych Lenin. Putin's image is on the white, blue and red Russian flag. The names of the presidents, commissars and comrades are written in Russian. Partially painted, faces are silk screened. Excellent condition. Made in Moscow.
5 nest. 6 1/2" down to 1 1/2".
[#PD-LKR1A]. $39.95
Leaders of the Free World.
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A world political nesting doll. Head doll is President George Bush Senior, followed by John Roy Major of Great Britain, Chancellor Helmut Kohl of Germany, President Francois Mitterrand of France, Prime Minister Martin Brian Mulroney of Canada, President Francesco Maurizio Cossiga of Italy, and Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa of Japan. Made in 1992 or 1993. Fully painted, including flags. 7 nest. 8" down to 1". 1 only.
$129. [#PD-PR]
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Yeltsin Nesting Doll.
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This mid-1990s painted set starts with Boris Yeltsin displaying two flags: St. Andrew's Cross and the Russian Tri-Color. Gorbachev wears a brown suit with a green tie (quite sporty!), the long-serving Brezhnev in red with military medals, "Papa Joe" Stalin in green military fatigues and pipe clenched in his mouth, and Lenin somber in black. Hand made and painted in Moscow.
5 nest. 7 1/2" to 2". 1 only.
$35. [#PD-Y18]

Gorbachev Nesting Doll.
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Uncommon larger sized doll (see below). Nicely painted set starts with Mikhail Gorbachev behind a red banner with "Perestroika" in Russian and and a hammer and sickle (nice artist's touch: the letter "T" is the hammer). A stern-faced Brezhnev bedecked in military medals (that he didn't earn), Khruschev in a Ukrainian peasant shirt holding an ear of corn (Ukraine was the "bread basket" for the Soviet Union, "Papa Joe" Stalin in green military fatigues holding his ever-present pipe, and Lenin in his trademark black suit, blue vest with his characteristic hand positions (in pocket and clutching vest). Hand made and painted in Moscow, circa 1995.
Unusual larger doll. 5 nest. 10" to 4". 1 only.
SPECIAL $89. [#PD-G38]

Perestroika.
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A one-of-a-kind political doll from the early days of Perestroika (Rebuilding) and Glasnost (Openess). Fronts of each doll have portraits of Boris Yeltsin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Leonid Brezhnev, Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Illyich Lenin. Beneath Yeltsin is a tri-colored map of Russia that signifies the change from Communism to Democracy. The fun begins when the dolls are flipped around.
Yeltsin's doll shows a 1-ruble note going up in flames, surrounded by falling ashes, signifying the currency devaluation. Gorbachev's doll has a picture of a television, which everyone watched 24 hours a day during the early 1990s for political information. Brezhnev's doll has a bottle of Stoly (Stolichnaya Vodka), with the (Russian) slogan: "Everything for the good of the citizen", signifying the hundreds of vodka vendor stalls that sprang up in the streets overnight, Stalin has red barbed wire star for the gulag concentration camps and Lenin's doll has a red flag. All dolls are fully painted. Excellent condition. Signed by the artist. Rostov on the Don, 1992.
5 nest. 6 1/2" down to 1 1/2". 1 only.
$249. [[#PD-Y12]
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1720 Ogden Ave
Lisle IL 60532
1-800-778-9404