Roly Poly Russian wobbly doll red grandmother in kokoshnik hand-painted signature gift
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Russian wobbly doll with a bell ring sound inside when knocked. It is a wobbly doll shape made to order by The Russian Artist GOLUBEVA.
Height of the Wobbly Doll is 10.2 cm or 4 inches.
It is painted beautifully as a Babushka in a traditional dress and Kokoshnik.
The Kokoshnik is a traditional Russian head-dress worn by women and girls to accompany the sarafan, primarily worn in the northern regions of Russia in the 16th to 19th centuries.
Historically a kokoshnik is a headdress worn by married women, though maidens wore a headdress very similar to a kokoshnik, but open in the back, named a povyazka The word kokoshnik describes a great variety of headdresses worn throughout Russia, including the cylindrical hats of Veliky Novgorod, two-pointed nimbus kika of Vladimir, triangular kika ofKostroma, small pearl hats of Kargopol, and scarlet kokoshniks of Moscow.
