Russian/Soviet leader nesting doll, 10 dolls, Yeltsin - Ivan the Terrible For Sale

10 piece nesting doll set by Russian Artist Novikov A.D. The dolls depict (from largest and most recent, to smallest and oldest:Boris YeltsinMikhail GorbachevLeonid BrezhnevNikita KhruschevJoseph StalinVladimir LeninNicholas IICatherine the GreatPeter the GreatIvan the Terrible
I bought this at a market in Germany or Netherlands in 1998. There is writing about the author on the bottom of the Yeltsin doll. An AI interpretation of the writing is:
"The image shows the bottom of a hand-painted wooden Russian nesting doll (matryoshka) featuring Cyrillic handwriting that translates to "Artist Novikov A.D." and "10 pieces" (худ. Новиков А.Д., 10 мест)"