Though the Russian Matryoshka doll was designed and created at the Abramtsevo colony in 1890, the nesting doll concept was popular in China and Japan long before Malyutin and Zvyozdochkin were inspired to put a new spin on it at the Abramtsevo estate.
Legal Definition of recall. 1  1 : a call to return a recall of workers. 2  2 : the right or procedure by which an official may be removed by vote of the people a recall petition. 3  3 : the act of revoking.  4 : a public call by a manufacturer for the return of a defective or especially unsafe product.
Cued recall is the process in which a person is given a list of items to remember and is then tested with the use of cues or guides. When cues are provided to a person, they tend to remember items on the list that they did not originally recall without a cue, and which were thought to be lost to memory.