Distinctive features of the Russian bath

A trip to the bathhouse should be a special pleasure, so its interior needs to be thought out to the smallest detail. What should be the correct and functional design of a bathhouse inside? The photos presented in most advertising catalogs speak about one thing: comfortable shelves, the presence of a steam room, washing room and rest room. The task seems simple - to create a modern Russian bathhouse, convenient for yourself, your family, guests or other visitors. But you always want to make a masterpiece out of your creation. The same applies to the interior of the steam room and relaxation room.

Plot[ | ]

The plot of the film centers on three erotic tales told by the bathhouse attendant Mitrich to a tipsy group who came to take a steam bath in a Russian bathhouse.

“The Bathhouse Evil Spirit” is about how a drunk carpenter splashed cucumber pickle on the heater instead of water and what came of it.

“The Bath Lefty” is about the village “Lefty”, who uses a technical invention to solve the problem of a widow-lady bursting with health and vitality, who, according to the terms of her husband’s will, is not allowed to have intimate relations with males for five years.

“The Bath Truce” is about two Red Army soldiers who, returning from a mission, mixed up the direction and ended up in a bathhouse in the German rear.

Key distinctive features of the Russian bath

The main difference lies in the design of the room. The classic version looks like this: washing room; steam room equipped with a stove; dressing room The latter was used for relaxation between steam baths; there were containers with water there and massage sessions were carried out. In the washing room, the body is washed before visiting the steam room, and there the person rested in between visits to the hottest room of the “soap room.”

The entrance door to the steam room has an unusual design; it is low, small and equipped with a large threshold. This is necessary to ensure that hot steam does not leave the room.

Inside the steam room, the average temperature and the same humidity are maintained, which contributes to the rapid formation of hot and humid air. The average temperature in a classic bath varies from fifty to ninety degrees. Humidity ranges from twenty to sixty-five percent. It is because of these indicators that Russian bathing traditions differ significantly from similar rituals in Europe.

Due to the extreme conditions, strict requirements are imposed on the time spent in the bathhouse. Even a seasoned person should not stay in the steam room for more than twenty minutes, but for a beginner, five is enough. For example, in Turkish hammams, characterized by low temperatures and low humidity, you can stay as long as your heart desires.

The Russian bath is also distinguished by the use of brooms in the steam room. They are woven from branches of bushes or trees with the addition of medicinal herbs. However, for the sake of fairness, it is worth noting that such an “accessory” is actively used in baths in Finland. Residents of the northern country use birch brooms for massage. But the Russian people pay special attention to this subject, and their assortment can amaze any person.

Most often, our steamers use brooms made from linden, birch or oak branches.

• Knittings made from “Russian beauty” have anti-inflammatory properties and help heal wounds on the body;
• A broom made from oak branches releases a special oil at high temperatures. Penetrating through open pores into the body, it cleanses it of toxins;
• The linden “accessory” calms the excited nervous system and helps fight kidney and liver pathologies.

Starring[ | ]

Company in the bathhouse:

• Mitrich — Viktor Bychkov
• Laughable - Oleg Kurtanidze
• Simpleton - Oleg Mileev
• Vitka — Pavel Stepanov
• Laughing - Iraida Sokolova
• Tanned - Olga Zueva
• Blonde - Lyubov Rusakova

"Bathroom evil spirit":

• Carpenter - Alexander Pyatkov
• Wife - Irina Grigorieva
• Fortune Teller: Anastasia Kadentseva
• Bannitsa - Lyubov Tikhomirova (credited as Neginskaya)

"Bath Lefty":

• Lady - Oksana Stashenko
• Master - Valery Dobronravov
• Lefty - Andrey Karpov
• Godfather - Vyacheslav Kulakov
• Clerk - Konstantin Chepurin
• Light hay girl - Lyubov Medvedeva
• Dark hay girl - Elena Lushchik

"Bath Truce":

• Little partisan - Oleg Chudnitsov
• Long Partisan - Nikolai Tonsky
• German officer - Mikhail Kotov
• German sentry - Sergei Donskikh
• Blonde German - Alla Lebedeva
• Dark German - Maria Rusakova

Filming[ | ]

In the credits of the film, the authors thank the residents of the village of Komyagino near Moscow, one of the Moscow saunas and the Usadba restaurant, which depicts a manor house in the second story of the film - this building is located in Moscow at Dolskaya Street, 10 on the territory of the Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve. , the former chancellery building: “the house of the specific department”, also known as the “House of Shkulev” - the poet F. S. Shkulev, who in the first years of Soviet power worked here as chairman of the presidium of the Lenin volost Council.

Criticism[ | ]

The film received only negative reviews. The editor of “Video Guide” Mikhail Ivanov described the film as follows: “Ordinary erotica on the verge of soft porn, filmed with a pretense of humor”[3].

Film critic Sergei Kudryavtsev twice included the film in his anti-ratings, including as the worst film in a quarter of a century, assigning it 1 point out of 10 possible[4][5].

The Vestnik magazine, sharply criticizing all the sequels to Peculiarities that came out after the two original Hunting and Fishing, called this self-proclaimed continuation “vulgar and mediocre”:[6]

“Peculiarities of the Russian Bath” is completely impossible to watch. Any derogatory assessment will not be excessive. You can’t watch this film and don’t want to talk about it.

— Magazine “Bulletin”, No. 1, 2000

It was noted that the film was made in the genre of popular print, the work of the director and actors was assessed in polar ways - both as “amateur” [7] and as completely professional, with a negative assessment of the film:

This is not erotica, but almost pornography, brilliantly filmed with actors and actresses. Did we really need to gain artistic potential, open and improve VGIK, in order to then film something like this? But lovely Russian faces, wonderful, charming women. It’s meanness in using the purest Russian surroundings for what is, in principle, a non-Russian picture.

— S. N. Esin[8]

At the same time, Mikhail Trofimenkov noted that, although the film has nothing to do with Rogozhkin’s real “Features” about hunting and fishing, its appearance “did not shock”, and the film, with its euphemistic theme “about the bathhouse”, is more appropriate to them than the released sequels of Rogozhkin himself on the topic “about politics” or “about football”. And the choice of Viktor Bychkov for the role of Mitrich - an allusion to Kuzmich in Rogozhkin’s films from the real “Specialities” - film critic Lyubov Arkus considered it logical not only in connection with the image created by “Specialities”, but also with the type - “a real man, except maybe with a weirdo” ":

This weirdness also extends to his erotic charm - it seems that he, just like Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, will fall in love with a woman even for the bend of her little toe. Maybe this is why Viktor Bychkov has recently been so willingly invited to new Russian soft porn - be it “Bomb” or “Peculiarities of the Russian Bath”.

— Recent history of Russian cinema: A-I / Alexander Golutva, Lyubov Arkus. - SESSION, 2001. - 498 p. — page 179

Later, assessments of the film were made taking into account the time of its filming and the further film career of the creators - actors, producer and director, who would later make a number of festival films and “is believed to be able to ‘take on the weight’ of a full-fledged comedy.”[9]

An unofficial continuation of “Peculiarities of the National Hunt” in the soft porn genre. With horror you recognize Viktor Bychkov as the bathhouse attendant (in just three years he will receive the Golden Eagle award). The producer of “Bath”, Mikhail Babakhanov, is a man of an interesting destiny: throughout the 90s he filmed erotica of varying degrees of severity (“Sex Vampire in Russia”, “Orgasm at the chime”), and by the end of the 2000s he began to invest money in purely festival films Grymov and Khomeriki.

- film critic Dmitry Bunygin, Sobaka.ru magazine, 2013[10].

DJ of the Maximum radio station Alexander Abrakhimov, in his review of the television week from May 1 to May 7, 2000, described the showing of this film on the sixth central channel (then the TV-6 Moscow channel was on this frequency) as the main anti-event of the past seven days :

The most powerful impression for me was... the film “Peculiarities of the Russian Bath” (TV-6). The program says “erotic short stories.” If this is erotica, what then is pornography? I have never seen more clumsy vulgarity and obscenity[11].

The film is included in the List of films prohibited from public display in the Republic of Belarus[12], and was also withdrawn from rebroadcast in the country of the Moscow TV-6 channel[13][14].

Bath and sauna for health and beautyVera Solovyova, 2013

There is a well-known saying among Russians: “The bathhouse is the second mother. It will steam the bones and improve the whole body.” It is believed that the very first bathhouse was a hollow tree. The ancestors of the Russians used to throw hot stones into a hollow with water that had accumulated after rains, and climb into this water. Ash was used instead of soap. Subsequently, they began to specially hollow out or burn out tree trunks for baths.

In Rus', special buildings for baths[1] appeared long before the baptism of the people. In ancient times, the Slavs had soap houses and vlazni. A special ritual of washing the Slavs, unlike any other, has been preserved to this day: a white bath and a black bath. Of course, not all Russians could afford to have a bath house. They steamed and washed in ovens. Having lit the stove, they heated it well, removed the coals and swept away the ash, put in a cast iron pot with water and covered the space of the stove with straw. Lying on the straw, the man from time to time sprinkled the roof of the stove with water from the cast iron and thus steamed. At the same time, his head was sticking out of the oven.

We can read about what a bathhouse was like in the northern regions of Russia from the famous Russian writer Vasily Belov:

“It was rare that a family in the village did not have its own bathhouse. True, in the North there were such volosts where bathhouses were not cut at all, for example, on the Monze River, where they washed themselves in stoves all their lives. But there are few such places.

The upper rows of the log houses and the ceiling of the bathhouse were chopped and laid especially carefully, since the heat and taste depended on this. A good bathhouse is good even when the lower rims are completely rotten and the floor is frozen. In addition to the heater and the two- and three-stage shelf, there were one or two benches in the bathhouse. The dressing rooms were built without a ceiling, they were cold.”

In addition to ordinary baths for washing, other types of baths appeared over time, especially with the emergence of large settlements and cities. For example, in the 18th century, medical, so-called “Bader” (“Bader”) baths arose in Russia. The owners of these baths were called baders. This is also what the employees of these establishments were sometimes called. The opening of such baths was not allowed without government permission. These were a kind of medical institutions, which were usually maintained by foreigners. In such public modern baths, in addition to the dressing room, washing room and steam room, there may also be rooms for bathing and showering, a swimming pool, massage rooms, gyms, as well as cafeterias, rest rooms, etc.

But let’s return to the traditional bath procedure and consider some types of ancient Slavic baths, many of which are forgotten today.

Herbal bath

. One of the variants of the Vedunovzna Kharey baths is a healing procedure that has survived to this day by covering the entire body of the patient with medicinal herbs. This is the so-called herbal bath.

Everyone knows that in order to heal the human body from many diseases, it is necessary to create conditions for heavy sweating. To do this, they took a canvas bag, filled it with fresh leaves of birch or linden, or willow, placed the patient in it, and tightened the bag around the neck. A person “steamed” in this way, sweating, thanks to the peculiar microclimate created by plants. This method is very effective for colds, removes toxins, increases sweating, relieves aches and fatigue, calms and restores sleep. This method was used in ancient times by the Russians, Kuban and Zaporozhye Cossacks.

Our distant ancestors sometimes solved the problem of “aromatization” in a very original way: they made baths in the form of temporary huts from branches and leaves of various trees. Depending on the desire to obtain a particular aroma, the tree (branches, leaves) was chosen; linden was most often used, then birch, juniper, and so on. There is a version that it was the bathhouse huts that prompted our ancestors to create the miracle of the bathhouse business - the broom.

Bathhouse-dugout.

In the villages of the ancient Slavs, bathhouses-dugouts and half-dugouts, original in their design and quite practical, were built.

In a large pit, the walls were strengthened, and logs were rolled on top. At first, such a room was used as a dwelling, and when they learned to build log huts, they began to use pits for baths. In such a bathhouse, the cracks in the ceiling were sealed, and earth was poured on top to prevent heat loss.

The half-dugout was also an earthen bathhouse, but a small log house rose above the pit; it had a small window covered with a bull's bladder or plugged with a straw plug. A fireplace was built inside, and such a bathhouse was heated in a black way, that is, without a chimney. The smoke came out through a door or a special vent.

Used water was drained using a drainage chute, over which a floor of half-logs was laid. There were two shelves in the earthen bath, one for steaming, the other for washing. The door always opened inward to prevent heat loss, and it was easier to dig out of the snow that blocked the bathhouse in winter. The hearth was heated, heating the stones. The hot stones were then thrown into tubs of water. Steam was obtained by splashing on stones, and with the help of a broom they steamed.

Currently, there is a boom in the revival of dugout bathhouses - projects have emerged for the construction of new individual semi-dugout steam baths in summer cottages. If the territory has a strong difference in terrain, then dugouts turn out to be a very cheap type of country baths. New technologies and building materials can give a long life to such a seemingly outdated structure as a dugout.

Sandy Slavic bathhouse

. Today, in the field of balneology, an original type of treatment is being revived - psammotherapy, sand treatment. It is believed that this is a very promising area of ​​recovery. Although in the recent past, in many southern regions of Russia, sand baths were used for healing purposes, they provided, if not a complete cure, then an improvement in health. Information about them has been preserved both in the oral literature of the southern peoples and in the memoirs of the Cossacks of the Don and Kuban.

In psammotherapy, sea, lake, and river sand is used, which includes quartz, feldspar, mica and other rocks. Sand with a dark sheen due to its high iron content heats up very strongly and retains heat well. Depending on the size of the sand grains, sand can be coarse-grained (more than 0.5 mm), medium-grained (from 0.5 to 0.25 mm) and fine-grained (from 0.25 to 0.1 mm). Medium-grained sand is most suitable for treatment.

Today scientists have proven that its healing effect is due to both temperature and mechanical effects. Sand retains heat perfectly, conducts it poorly and slowly releases it to the surface of the human body, causing a favorable response from the nervous, vascular and other body systems.

Covering the body, sand gently massages the skin and underlying tissues. Being dry and porous, sand absorbs profuse sweat well, so the body does not overheat and the heat of the sand is easily tolerated.

This is how a sand bath is made. The naked patient is buried in hot sand, heated by the summer sun. The entire body is covered with sand, leaving only the face. The procedure lasts 20–30 minutes.

During the session, it is necessary to constantly maintain the water regime, that is, give hot water or medicinal infusion to drink in small sips.

The general warming up and profuse sweating of such a bath effectively treats paralysis, neuralgia and many diseases of the musculoskeletal system: arthrosis, arthritis, rheumatism, myositis of various origins.

Ways to use the healing properties of sand baths can be in the form of both general and local procedures.

To independently conduct general sand baths (when most of the human body is exposed to sand), the following conditions must be observed. Adults should carry out the procedure at an air temperature of at least 20 °C, children - at least 23 °C. The skin should be wiped dry before the procedure. You need to lie face up in a hole the size of a human body, previously dug in the sand. The head should be in the shade. A towel should be placed under the head, a napkin soaked in cool water should be placed on the forehead (it should be changed as it warms up), the body should be covered with a layer of hot sand 5–6 cm thick, and in the abdominal area it should not exceed 1–2 cm. The heart area should be leave free.

Local psammotherapy is carried out on the affected areas: limbs, lower back, individual joints. The duration of a psammotherapy session reaches one hour.

Participation of famous actors[ | ]

The film’s producer never hid his attitude, but noted that it was such a time (“and we also thought: if it’s on the central channels, then we can too”), while the film received a distribution certificate, was legally released on video cassettes and was even shown once on all-Russian central television (the premiere took place on the night of May 2-3, 2000 on the TV-6 channel)[15][16][11]. He also noted that the film, in the context of the decline of film production, was a purely commercial project, and, according to him, the videotapes were a huge success - the film outsold a number of American blockbusters:[17]

By the way, it’s a pity that this cannot be proven documented, but “Features of the Russian Bath” - I don’t know of other projects where the producer received four rubles for the invested ruble. Neither Boomer nor Channel One films ever received four to one. It was a purely commercial project. Some people saved themselves with TV series, but I saved myself with this. From a production point of view, this is the cheapest genre, which is always in demand. I tried to earn money. But if you offer me to do this now, I will refuse.

- film producer Mikhail Babakhanov[18]

Viktor Bychkov in an interview with AiF in 2014 said about the film that he simply did not know what would happen:[19]

There were no signs of trouble. Eh, if only I knew in advance what would happen... I insisted on Mitrich’s option, honestly worked 18 hours and, having received a fee, went home. After some time, they called me and invited me for two more days. And then the film came out... A kind of Russian erotica.

Alexander Pyatkov spoke about the film and filming in it:[20]

Completely “leftist” cunning producers decided to capitalize on the wave of success of Alexander Rogozhkin’s films, stole someone else’s title and made the film. In defense of the artists, I want to say that practically no films were made in our country at that time, but, as they say, we wanted to eat. Lyubochka [Tikhomirova] was charming - young, energetic... She undressed in front of the camera without a shadow of embarrassment.

Oksana Stashenko said that it was an ordinary acting job:[21][22]

It’s not that I’m ashamed of these films—my acting work there is very good—it’s another matter that it was presented as an erotic film. But, oddly enough, after this film, even serious directors paid attention to me, because I played my role well.

History of the Russian bath

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The Russian bathhouse has an ancient history and it arose along with the birth of the Slavic tribes. The main source of data transmission about the Russian bath is traditions and oral folk art. Russian historians were not very keen to describe the bathhouse, and how could it be otherwise, because for a Russian person it was a matter of course. Therefore, we know more about the history of the bathhouse from sources from foreign historians and travelers. Legends and legends tell us more about the bathhouse. Songs, proverbs, sayings that have come down from time immemorial, and references to the healing power of the bath have also come down to us.

Doctors and healers attached great importance to the bathhouse. They believed that in the bath procedure the elements of nature - water, fire, earth and air - merge together. The ancient Slavs, being pagans, worshiped the gods responsible for these elements. In the bathhouse, a person combines these forces by also applying his soul, receiving the protection of the elements and receiving a piece of their power. There are many holidays associated with fire and water. For example, on Ivan Kupala, our ancestors jumped over the fire, cleansing themselves of evil and disease, and nightly swimming in a river or lake allowed us to merge with nature and partake of its vital juices. On Maslenitsa they burned an effigy of winter, also clearing the way for spring with fire. In fairy tales there is living and dead water because the Slavs believed in the cleansing and healing power of water. People knew that health was directly related to cleanliness. The bathhouse was considered the parent of “living” water, directing vital energy in the right direction.

The meaning of the bath

In the life of a Russian person, the bathhouse was of such great importance and was a cultural heritage and national pride. True, the bathhouse at the beginning had other names, so in ancient chronicles you can find numerous references to soap houses. There were other names, such as “vlazni”, “movnitsy”, “movyi”. There is an ancient document, an agreement with Byzantium, dated 907, there was even a special clause in which it was stipulated that the Russian ambassadors who arrived in Constantinople would “create a language” whenever they wanted. The baths are mentioned in the “Tale of Bygone Years” and the charter of the Kiev-Pechersk Monastery. The monks then were very well-read and knew a lot about healing and used baths for treatment. Using such simple beneficial properties of baths, monasteries began to set up baths and observe their effect, what healing effect they had on the sick. When the healing properties of heat and steam were confirmed, peculiar hospitals began to be organized at the baths, which were called “institutions for the infirm,” which were the first hospitals in Rus'.

Foreigners and Russian bathhouse

The Russian bathhouse cannot be compared with Asian ones, and even more so with European ones, because in it the effect of steam is much stronger. And despite the works of ancient Greek healers, they were the first to pay attention to how much benefit thermal water can give to the human body. The Russian bath was stronger in impact because the main attribute is a broom and steam exposure. And although from the perspective of foreigners, the bathhouse attendant whips hot bodies, and from the outside it seems that this is just torture. But this is in the opinion of foreigners who came to the steam room for the first time. As soon as they tried the Russian bath, they felt a surge of strength and vigor. Thus, foreigners remembered for the rest of their lives the acute, surprisingly unusual sensations associated with the steam room. In all kinds of descriptions, they spread the fame of her throughout the world as a healer of many ailments. There are many foreign books in which travelers share their vivid impressions of traveling on Russian soil and there is certainly a mention of the bathhouse.

The Arabs themselves knew a lot about bathhouses, but they described the Russian bathhouse separately, as an ancient Arabic manuscript describes how our ancestors built bathhouses. It says that it was a small wooden house with one small window. The bathhouse was assembled from logs, the cracks between the logs were filled with tree resin and forest moss. A stove or hearth was placed in the corner of the bathhouse, which was lined with cobblestones; there was certainly a barrel of water there. When the stones became heated from the fire, they sprayed water on them, having previously blocked the door and window. Foreigners were amazed that local residents, after a hot steam bath, would dive into an ice hole or snowdrift with a running start. Therefore, they seemed like unprecedented heroes.

Bathhouse in white and black

People soar by climbing onto shelves that look like ladders with several steps. The higher you go, the hotter and thicker the steam. Only the most experienced and most seasoned steamers are able to stay on the top shelf, because the temperature there is very high. White and black bathhouses existed at the same time and differed in the presence or absence of a stove. The bathhouse was built simply - it was a small log house with two rooms and a low ceiling, but the bathhouse was unique in that it was often one room, otherwise the fireplace would have been impossible to heat. Nowadays, black baths are a rarity, but in Western Siberia and the Middle Urals there are still some and their fans. Such a bathhouse is called black because after the first heating, the ceiling and walls immediately became black, because due to the lack of a chimney, smoke flowed from the hearth into the bathhouse. When the stone was warmed up, the ash was removed from the fireplace, the bathhouse was cleared of soot, the walls were doused with hot water, and steam was added by splashing water on the heater. The white bathhouse had a stove with a chimney and therefore the bathhouse was not smoked. More often, such a bathhouse was made with a dressing room and even rooms. All wealthy people had such baths and these baths were much more than just a bathhouse. It was already the cultural center of the family, where they also carried out household affairs.

Russian culture is full of different traditions, and one of the brightest and unforgettable ones that remained unchanged was the Russian bathhouse, which grew from a hygienic procedure into something more. It has become, rather, a cultural phenomenon, reflecting the character of the nation. In Russia, everyone, both rich and ordinary people, took a steam bath. Peter the Great, an ardent admirer of the West, loved the Russian bathhouse very much and on his order the bathhouse was built even for Russian soldiers in Paris, gathering crowds of surprised onlookers who said that such procedures could lead to death. Even folk holidays were dedicated to the bathhouse in Rus', for example, the Day of Agrafena the Bathing Lady, which was accompanied by folk festivities. On this day, bath brooms were prepared and a bath was taken. There are many interesting historical facts, and the history of the Russian bathhouse has them, but you can talk a lot about the bathhouse and not talk about the positive effects that it has on the body.

The main difference between the Russian bath and others

A real Russian bath is a steam bath in which the main tool for controlling steam is a broom. Without a broom, a bathhouse is not a bathhouse; it loses almost half of its significance. It is worth mentioning, of course, that in the treeless zone the broom was replaced with a towel (towel), but it exactly performed all the functions of a broom and therefore we put an equal sign here. A broom is not a “percussion” instrument, as some people think, trying to put as much effort into it as possible. A broom is a universal steam control tool and its main functions: steam injection, heating, massage, cooling, inhalation. When the heat is pumped up, active sweating occurs, a kind of massage is performed, the presence of the leaf is both a cosmetologist and an inhaler. Therefore, the main difference between the Russian bath and others is, first of all, its comprehensive approach to healing and cleansing the body through steam procedures with the obligatory control of steam with a broom.

What kind of broom is he for the Russian bath?

Brooms are made from branches of trees such as oak, linden, birch, elm, maple, alder, walnut, and ash. Residents of the tundra use brooms made from dwarf birch, and in Central Asia - from licorice branches. Interestingly, you can even use coniferous tree varieties: fir, cedar, juniper. Herbal brooms are also used, but more for inhalations. Mixed brooms are made, for example: oak and maple, oak and eucalyptus, birch and juniper. Usually, different types of brooms are used at different times, and this is due to their special effects on the human body and skin. That is, each of them has its own healing effect.

The most popular broom is, of course, oak. Its sheet holds its shape well and is resistant to impact, sticks to the body and absorbs sweat well, as it has a porous surface. Its leaves contain special tannins that have a beneficial effect on the skin and cleanse it. In addition, it lowers blood pressure and has anti-inflammatory effects. However, other brooms are also popular, especially birch brooms, which have an anti-inflammatory effect, perfectly heal wounds and pustules, reduce joint pain, and so on.

Preparing the broom

The broom must be prepared for soaring. Even if it's freshly cut. Then it must be washed and left in cold water for half an hour. A dry broom is prepared cold and hot: first, it is squashed. And then either immerse it in cold water for a couple of hours, or for 15 - 30 minutes in hot water at 40 - 600C. This procedure will make it soft, silky and fragrant. It is very important not to over-expose the broom and not to steam it in boiling water, as in this case the leaves will cook.

How to steam with a broom correctly. Technology

Immediately after you enter the steam room, you need to sit quietly, get used to the heat and steam, and inhale the aroma. Next, the person steaming lies on his stomach, and the steamer, holding a broom in both hands, begins the process. The head is covered with either a felt cap or two brooms. They begin to pump up steam with brooms and direct it to the body. Light touches warm the body with heated leaves. Under no circumstances should you whip this excess, you can rub the body, knead it, and in case of overheating, wash it with cool water. If the leaves are dry, then the broom should be moistened in warm water or in a steam of herbs. The movements are performed in a certain sequence: from the legs to the head and back. When moving over the buttocks and lower legs, the movements should be more dynamic in order to warm them up more. We warm up the back gently. The shoulders are good, but under no circumstances should we soar the head. First, the broom strokes the feet, calves and buttocks, and then moves towards the arms, along the back. From the sides, this resembles the action of fans, since in this case the broom barely touches the body. After such a massage, you can already move on to quilting.

If the steamer becomes too hot, tell him, then the steamer will slow down and raise his hands up, shaking a broom over you, or dip the brooms in cool water and wipe the body, after which the warming continues again.
Rubbing is the next step. This is done with the same broom, pressing and running along the entire body, as if with a washcloth. Continuing the procedure, the person steaming lies on his back, and the steamer repeats all movements, but the force should be less. To ease the reaction of the heart, a cold, unsteamed broom is placed on its area. Then the procedure is continued from the feet to the shoulders and back. What technique you will use a broom depends on the temperature in the steam room. If the heat is weakened, then the movements will be shocking, and the rubbing will be done vigorously. At normal temperatures, impacts occur clearly and with medium strength. If the heat is too strong, then you need to steam it lightly with brooms, so that one broom creates heat and the other softens it. At the end of the process, the body is rubbed with a broom, like a washcloth, holding it by the handle with one hand, and holding the palm of the other hand on the leaves, pressing them to the body. In this way, sweep the broom along the entire body. Remember when visiting a bathhouse, remember that steaming should be comfortable. If you feel headache, dizziness, nausea, general weakness or discomfort. Leave the steam room and try to take a horizontal position and sort out your feelings. After this, take a warm shower and leave the bathhouse. Maybe it's not your day. Share with friends:

Notes[ | ]

1. Recent history of Russian cinema: 1992-1996 / Leonid Popov, Lyubov Arkus. — SESSION, 2002—523 p. — page 571
2. Mikhail Trofimenkov - Shoot and score // Kommersant-Vlast magazine, No. 20 dated 05/26/2008, p. 60
3. Features of the Russian bath // Video Guide
4. The worst Russian films in a quarter of a century
5. The worst films I saw in 2013
6. Vestnik magazine video club
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8. Sergei Nikolaevich Esin - At the turn of the century: diary of the rector, 2002. - 588 p.
9. Money, vodka and Hamlet // Novaya Gazeta, No. 33, May 4, 2006
10. Dmitry Bunygin - Make me unsee it: St. Petersburg in trash cinema // Sobaka.ru, 2013
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12. Black film list: which films are banned in Belarus // Interfax, 2009
13. ON-LINE Society (undefined)
    . BelGazeta (February 12, 2001).
14. It's time to weed the "strawberries" (undefined)
    . Belarus today (April 28, 2001).

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    . 7 days. - “TV6 Moscow 00:55 Film “Features of the Russian bath...”. Premiere! Cinema TV-6".

16. TV program for the week from May 1 to May 7, 2000 (unspecified)
    . Truth (April 27, 2000). - “TV-6 0:55 “Features of the Russian bath...”.”
17. A presentation of the video release of the film “Features of Bath Policy, or Bath-2” took place // NEWSru.com, September 26, 2000
18. We ourselves wrote the law on pornography // Gazeta.ru, 08/12/2005
19. Viktor Bychkov: “I said everything about Kuzmich!” // Arguments and facts, 09/04/2017
20. Evelina Vetrova - Lyubov Tikhomirova from the series “Newlyweds” starred in porn // Interlocutor, January 26, 2012
21. Oksana Stashenko: “I calmly undress at work” // “Russia 1”, December 14, 2005
22. Oksana Stashenko: Pierre Richard disappointed me // Express newspaper, June 26, 2008