Russian sauna, or Banya, has always been important part of Russian culture. In ancient Russia, Russian bath was connected to all the most important events: birth, marriage, recovery from a serious illness. Thus, there was a tradition that necessarily had to go to the Russian sauna before the wedding and the day after the wedding. Our ancestors believed that the purpose of bath is not so much to purify the body, how to purify the soul. Bath has always been considered the best way to overcome sickness, evil eye, and everything bad. It was believed, even if the patient is not helped bath, and then there is nothing to help. According to historians, Russians were using Russian bath in fifth century. Interesting fact that Russian saunas were used by rich, a noble people and ordinary people, so it is unfair to consider the Russian people uncivilized, backward and do not have any idea of personal hygiene. Russian sauna - one of the oldest, she appeared almost simultaneously with the very emergence of the Slavs. Russian baths have always played a huge role in the lives of Russian people. And, indeed, a Russian steam bath does not compare with any European or Asian baths. It, in contrast, has much stronger effect. And an indispensable attribute is birch or oak twigs, which whip hot bodies so that it resembles the foreigners as a torture. In Russian sauna, under the blows of branches of birch or oak, they felt that their death has come and stands on the threshold. But after taking the Russian bath foreigners reported that they feel just great. Russian baths aroused interest among foreign guests. They were surprised to alternate traditions of the Russian sauna heat with a dip in the ice-hole, pouring cold water and rubbing with snow. The glory of the Russian bath-healer spread throughout the world. In Old Russia, almost every house had a sauna. Bath stoked up only once a week, on Saturdays, the Saturdays were considered to be bath days, and nobody was working on Saturdays. But the most value had big public baths, where there were not just for washing, but for the steam and the rest, because in the large steam rooms create a totally unique and stunning effect. Interesting fact that in the fifteen-seventeen centuries practiced joint bathing of men and women. It was the same way in Europe at that time; however foreigners were surprised by freedom of manners and relationships in a Russian sauna. According to general opinion, the Russians were completely devoid of false modesty, whole family together with children was taking a Russian family sauna.
Posted on: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 15:35:36 +0000
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