Thursday 24 October 2019

** BATH HOUSE **


 A rare family in the village did not have a bathhouse. However, in the North existed such parishes, where bathhouses were not built at all, villages as along the river Monza, where people bathed in the ovens all their life. But there are not many aforesaid places in the Russian North.
The upper rows of the walls and the ceiling of the bathhouse were cut and put together with special care because the heat and flavour of the "banya" depended on it.
 In a good bath-house, it feels great even when the lower logs are entirely rotted and the floor is frozen. In addition to the stove with rocks and a two-three-tiered shelf, there were one or two benches in the bath. The dressing room was built without the ceiling, so-called "cold."

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