Set of 3 egg shaped matryoshka or nesting dolls from the monastery at Sergiyev Posad.   Each features paintings of different aspects of the monastery and its onion domed churches in a gloss finish. 

Sergiyev Posad grew in the 15th century around one of the greatest of Russian monasteries, the Trinity Lavra established by St. Sergius of Radonezh, still (as of 2015) one of the largest monasteries in Russia. Town status was granted to Sergiyev Posad in 1742. The town's name, alluding to St. Sergius, has strong religious connotations. Soviet authorities changed it first to just Sergiyev in 1919, and then to Zagorsk in 1930, in memory of the revolutionary Vladimir Mikhailovich Zagorsky.

The original name was restored in 1991

Dimensions:  Tallest is 4" with an approx. 2.5" diameter.  The middle one is 3" tall with a 1.75" diameter. The smallest if 1.75" tall and 1.25" diameter

I purchased these at the Monastery in 2005.