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Russian Bath - distinctive phenomenon. Its history goes back to antiquity. Nestor the Chronicler, narrating the visit of St. Andrew Novgorod, attributes its origin to the centennial of Mr. I. e. The preacher of the Gospel words, parivshihsya watching in the bath, could not Hanadiv: "Not anyone else being tortured, themselves tormented and do not bathe, and anguish ".
This "torture" is the easiest and most effective way of healing the body. And in those times knew the Slavs: Bath soars, Bath ruled, Bath will correct all. Even the ratio of good and evil on Russian soil. A textbook example - the massacre of Princess Olga with the second best Embassy drevlyan, and who could not imagine, what lies behind the proposal friendly "wash up" after a long journey in the bath. "The best" people of the earth Drevlyane, guilty in the death of Prince Igor, efforts of the servants were burnt to death by Olga. Thus was restored the validity of.
Another crowned head, Peter I, too badly treated his guests, forcing them to wait, until he himself plenty napar. A. Tolstoy in his novel, writes on this subject: "Peter A. was lying on a shelf near the ceiling, raising his thin knees – waving a broom over. Batman Nartov twice already, and it hovered poured ice water, and now he is basking.
In the bath he went immediately on arrival, then to have dinner with all the flavor. Bath was made of linden wood, easy. Peter Alekseevich not want to go from here, Although for two hours in the dining room the Governor-General languished guests waiting for the king and the output table ".
But the bath there is not only great persons, but also ordinary people. Nay, in the first centuries of Christianity in Russia there were public baths. Their founders, obviously, were Pechora Monks, visited Mount Athos, where these baths have existed.
Subsequently, they were evaluated by many writers and public figures, And among them. Pushkin, D. Davydov, A. Chekhov, H. Leskov, and others. A friend of Herzen, Chief of Police Department of Moscow second H. Ogarev so fond of steam, that "allowed all detainees, even in the secret chambers in the police houses, that is, political prisoners, led to the bath, accompanied by “Musketeers” (unarmed attendants in homes of police officers)». This was written in. Gilyarovsky in his essay on Moscow's baths, which gave a complete picture of the internal structure of the Russian man's favorite places.
- Hey you, figure! - Shouted the stout gentleman Belotelov, <…>. - Is a couple!
- I, Your Honor, no attendant, I am a barber-. Not my business to give away pairs of. Would you put the jars krovososnye?
This is the beginning of the story A. Chekhov's "The Baths". Really, in the baths there are specialists, which not only put the banks, but also engaged in bloodletting. On signs and written: "There are sheared, shave, Forest put the leeches and blood ". Barbers were from villages, delivered as a teenager in Moscow relatives.
First, the village boy citify, and then began to teach "geography": "First of all, show, a tavern where and how it is to penetrate through the back door, then – where the tavern, to run for boiling water, where the bakery. And then the next Muscovite comes into its own rights and responsibilities ". The work of the boys included washing bottles of kvass, preparation of brooms, sponges, assistance to the barber, learning to, what we now call pedicures. "And most of all little boys, and got it working, and the blows of the “кусочников”. They were poluhozyaeva, in whose hands were and bathhouse, and banschitsy, and all working people dressing, especially exploited their workers – bathers, whose work and living conditions were not comparable to anything ".
In the "demotic" baths-grandmother worked kostopravki, dislocations are corrected, "Hernia started talking," and was operated under the name "prisekanie". Granny-kostopraka "ordered to lie down across his belly open door threshold, put her on top of the loin, dry twigs, and struck with an ax several times on the sly for brooms, muttering unintelligible incantations ".
The main problem with these baths were thieves, who have developed their own system: They drowned because bath, that the lovers were forced to steam out into the soap. Meanwhile, the thieves hid their clothes, and by evening came for trophies. For this innocent had to pay employees, and so that they could not boast of a high salary. "Air thieves were strong and elusive. Some owners, to preserve the prestige of their baths, even entered into a deal with thieves, paying them a monthly compensation, and “purchased” thieves themselves watching other people thieves, and if any caught – bad he had to, mercy of its competitors was not: If not killed, is maimed for life ".
The so-called bath service developed, and appeared more and more new services. Not the least role in this played A. Pushkin. As soon as he published his "Journey to Erzerum", as appeared in the Russian bath linen bubble soap and wool mitten. Alexander narrated in his work: «…Hasan (attendant) began by, that laid me on the warm stone floor, after which he began to break me Member, pulling joints, hit me hard with his fist: I did not feel any pain, but a surprising relief ... After this he rubbed my mitt and, strongly opleskav warm water, began to wash the linen soapy bubble. Indescribable feeling: hot soap drenches you, the air! After the bubble Hasan put me in a bath – that was the end of the ceremony ".
Further Russian baths in its progress had reached the, that brought family separation, where the great ladies came with their lap-dog: "The maids washed the little dogs with her mistress'.
However, in the 20 years of the twentieth century, Russian bath, turned to the Soviet, a talented writer and satirist ridiculed M. Zoschenko. Here and "trouble with numbers", and the noise of the wash, and theft ... Where is this bath? "Address? Which Bath? Ordinary. In the dime ".
But today, on the sites of the most famous baths in Moscow can be read on several different categories of comfort offices, about the services and laundries, Beauty Salons, and of fine cuisine ... and despite the fact, Grivennikov that there will not be enough, stay will be enjoyable and memorable.