A History of Moscow Bathhouses
6 hrs. 12 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Anatoly Rubinov
Author
Vladimir Gilyarovsky
Narrator
Sergey Kirsanov
Narrator
Vladimir Samoylov
Description
Bathhouses have accompanied humanity since ancient times, and inseparably linked to them are the history of customs and culture in the broad sense.
For a Russian person, a bathhouse has long been an integral part of life—an embodiment of hospitality and the home hearth.
Moscow was especially famous for its bathhouses. “The only place that no Muscovite has ever missed is the bathhouses.” “Moscow without bathhouses is not Moscow,” wrote V. A. Gilyarovsky. The most famous Moscow bathhouses are the Sandunov Baths. Since the day they opened, they have been a center of public life in the capital: something like an English club for the nobility and a polyclinic for common people.
Two well-known journalists from two different eras tell about the history and traditions of the bath business in Moscow: “the king of Moscow reporters,” a recognized connoisseur of Moscow, author of the famous book “Moscow and Muscovites,” writer and journalist Vladimir Gilyarovsky, and our contemporary, journalist of the “Literary Gazette,” publicist and writer Anatoly Rubinov.
For a Russian person, a bathhouse has long been an integral part of life—an embodiment of hospitality and the home hearth.
Moscow was especially famous for its bathhouses. “The only place that no Muscovite has ever missed is the bathhouses.” “Moscow without bathhouses is not Moscow,” wrote V. A. Gilyarovsky. The most famous Moscow bathhouses are the Sandunov Baths. Since the day they opened, they have been a center of public life in the capital: something like an English club for the nobility and a polyclinic for common people.
Two well-known journalists from two different eras tell about the history and traditions of the bath business in Moscow: “the king of Moscow reporters,” a recognized connoisseur of Moscow, author of the famous book “Moscow and Muscovites,” writer and journalist Vladimir Gilyarovsky, and our contemporary, journalist of the “Literary Gazette,” publicist and writer Anatoly Rubinov.
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