
The graceful and mysterious, delicate and playful… Porcelain beauties by Marina Bychkova embody the ideal of “eternal feminine.” Marina wrote on her website: “My need to work with dolls became evident as a calling when I was six years old. As a child I became painfully aware and appalled at the mediocrity and the uninspired dullness of mass-produced dolls. This profound frustration coupled with my natural sensibilities inspired me to create my own dolls, suited to my own ideas of feminine beauty.” We’ve already written about beautiful realistic dolls of Alexandra Kokinova and cute handmade dolls by da-bu-di-bu-da. These dolls are absolutely different but each one has its own character, it’s not just a toys for adults but real people with feelings and habits. It seems like each of these figures has a whole history that they just can not tell us.
Beauty and the Beast
Cathedral
The Bloody Lady Elizabeth Bathory
Golden Lilly
Stages of Grief
Olga Larina
Virgin
Lily
Lolita
Peacock
Lavanya
Cinderella
Illumination
Young Cixi: the Dowager Empress of China
Elena the Beautiful
Alice
Bride of Frankenstein
Dunyazade
Banshee
Echo – The Emperor’s Youngest Daughter
Makhdot – Daughter of the Moon
Cosmos Exploratum Genesis
Agnetha – The Other Woman
Imperial Concubine
Nitocris: The first Woman-Pharaoh
Venetian
Kia – The Water Nymph