When it would not be a bathhouse, we would all be gone

For a Russian person, a bathhouse is, of course, not only the opportunity to wash and fall (although what a Russian bath without a couple) It is also a space where the sacred meets the sinful, spiritual with bodily, and this world is in contact with that world. In different era, the city baths were both a place where they drove moonshine and brothels, where you could find a whole lot of dubious pleasures, and clubs where freed -thought speeches were conducted, and peculiar forums where business transactions could be concluded, and social elevators that help advance advance in service or make a political career. Professor of Slavicism, Ethan Pollock, wrote a detailed and fascinating history of the Russian bath, relying on archival materials, artistic texts, picturesque canvases, memoirs and, of course, on personal experience