Than the character of the Russian mafia? He beats people with a broom! Part 3.

ONE WEEK AMERICAN IN MOSCOW (continued, part 3) I left the station and went to get new impressions of Moscow. In general, I went to the bath. Bath - it is a place where people bathe. In Moscow, there is one very famous and inspirational bath, she is at the heart of the city. I wanted to go there for a week, and today, finally forced myself to go to see where she is. It took me about half an hour of searching and questioning passers-by, then I had to pay 400 rubles more than I expected because I came too early (probably before it ended in a common working day). I came earlier to 4 minutes. I took a towel and went to the HUGE TWO-STOREYED saunas to REFUSED CLOGGED Nude. Russian. Peasants. Yy-yy ... I went into a corner and sat next to two fairly normal (I by this I mean not quite naked, and looking more like aliens) guys who were talking to some language in the end it turned out that in French. I said: "Hullo!" - And, thank God, they replied with a laugh in English, asking, not American, I accidentally. Hurrah-ah! Then they explained how all of this bath is constructed. Usually heated to 90 degrees centigrade steam room - is only part of the process bath. Once the heat becomes unbearable, it is necessary to go out and hold one of several cooling procedures: jump into more like a jacuzzi bath, shower, take an ordinary bath, jump in a wooden barrel or just fill a wooden bucket with cold water and poured over himself. In the steam room I stayed no more than 5 minutes and then jumped into a slightly greenish jacuzzi for a few seconds. When I returned to the steam room (because you have to alternately expose yourself to heat and cold), I saw what seemed to me, two naked men who mutuzili each other some kind of palm leaves. What kind of nonsense? I sat down at this time, rather timidly, because I somehow did not want one of those Russian mobsters ran towards me, screaming and a bunch of bamboo sticks (at that time seemed to me that he could throw himself with anything). Two of these peasants something happy, so I decided that beating each other with palm branches in the bath - it's completely normal. All this should help the blood flow or something like that. Very strange. All this was very strange, but apparently this is different from Russia and other countries. Stalinist architecture Tomorrow I will go to St. Petersburg. I miss Moscow, but already mentally prepared to continue the journey. Start material: