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Matryoshkas date from 1890, and are said to have been inspired by souvenir dolls Nesting Dolls from Japan. However, the concept of nested objects was familiar in Russia, having been applied to carved wooden apples and Easter eggs; the first Fabergé egg, in 1885, had a nesting of egg, yolk, hen, and chick.
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Matryoshkas are also passed down metaphorically, as a design paradigm, certified as the "matryoshka principle" or "nested doll principle" |
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| It denotes a recognizable relationship of "similar object-within-similar object" that appears in the design of lousy with other natural and man-made objects |
| Examples include the Matryoshka brain and the Matroska media container format. |