. . They themselves build baths in the first hut building, placing a large bath containing hot stones inside. . The ancient Slavs purified themselves with the help of a Russian sauna after the funeral of their dead relatives, women use a bathhouse to cleanse and decorate their body.
. Nestor, the great Russian chronicler wrote a book, in it he talks about how the apostle Andrei went to Novgorod and saw people swimming in a wooden sauna . They were naked and happily beat each other with panicles in order to wash themselves and then doused with cold water.
. The Monks used the Saunas healed the patients and Prince Vladimir called on their institutions for the disabled. From there, the bathhouse became known as one of the first medical institutions in Russia, which has opened up for monks, which are considered more educated among the rest of the population, for further medical research.
The history of the bath in the second millennium
Throughout the world, the Russian bath became well known. After the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte, many Russian baths were built in various countries of Western Europe. In fact, this idea began before in London and New York since the 18th century Steamhouses-Russian.
About the Finnish sauna, the information is scarce in comparison. Early in Russian chronicles, they often celebrate the bathhouse and when European journalists rushed to Russia in centuries after the Reformation, the Russian bath made exciting material the opportunity to send home. Russians became known for their enthusiasm. In 1914 m. Hartea told the Finnish museum society, in Moscow there is more interest in baths than here in Finland.
LF history of the early 1900s was different if the Russian folklore was not hidden behind a dense political curtain, the bath could become a household name in America instead of Finnish saunas.
The parallel development of the sauna and baths is used only to the north-west of Russia. In another place in the Soviet Union, all types of baths are discussed in this book, exists. In the southwestern bathtub, they are flooded after the Islamic and Roman model. Hypocaust heating was found how far to the north of Kuibyshevskaya on the Volga. Among the nomadic tribes of the Central and Eastern Soviet Union, portable baths are then used – just like sweat from the North American Indians . Bathing is so popular in the USSR that even in areas where there is a shortage of materials, as in barren areas of Siberia, Sovetsky built a bath of sore or clay. The word itself suggests the origin of the bathhouse, as well as the means for entering it – Lazit to crawl, or go down. In these primitive baths there is only a dirty floor covered with hay or straw.
The Black Bath in the north-west is the Russian equivalent of the Finnish sauna, and the white bath belongs to specific baths in cities. Due to white baths, a Russian bathhouse is often perceived as a steam bath . . Because the white baths were so actively used by city Russian, it was almost impossible to maintain high temperature. As a result, steam filled the hot rooms. Travelers to Russia, then brought words from these full Russian bathhouse.
One of the earliest descriptions of the bath comes from the Russian story from 1113, in the description of the missionary activity of the Apostle, Andreas
He went down from the hill, on which in Kyiv he was subsequently built and continued his journey to the Dnieper. Then he reached the Slavs at the point where Novgorod is now. He saw these people existing in accordance with their customs and watched them swimming, he asks, they have. He went from there and came to Rome, where he said that he recognized and observed.
Another mention of baths is in the same annals, in the history of Olga the revenge of the princess for the murder of his husband, Prince Igor, from the Slavic tribe Drevlians to 945 BC.e. Drevlians leader hoped to marry the widow of Olga and sent ambassadors to discuss ideas. Когда Drevlians прибыла Ольга приказала ванну должны быть готовы к ним, и сказал Мойте себе и ко мне . The bathhouse is heated and the unsuspecting Drevlians entered and began to wash, after which Olga’s army closed the bathhouse after him, and she ordered him to set him on fire, so Drevlians were burned to death .
In 906 n.e. . Although the baths in Constantinople were not like a bathhouse, they would be enough in a foreign land.
In the early 1600s, the German librarian, Adamus Oleariy, who visited Russia gave this score from the bathhouse in his book, Persian travel fairy tales
Their baths are the only thing that there are any similarities, what we call pagans, in Moscow Rus (Moscow), nevertheless published from them, but are very indifferent to such use.
Olearius also described luxurious baths from the Kremlin on the benches of the king of soft leather and thick pillows scattered on the floor. Instead of jumping into the lake or swim in the snow after the bath, a person from the nobility will resign to cool the room from the wall to the wall of the mirror and the servant waves the stork of fans.
From then to the line of the 20th century, Russian bathing has been a favorite topic entering Russia. Casanova in 1774, TUK in 1779, Porter in 1809, Cox in 1884 – the list can be continued endlessly.