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Rest and Health
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The black bania of the northwest is the Russian equivalent to the Finnish savusauna, while the white bania refers to concrete bath in the cities. Because of the white bania, the Russian bath is often thought of as a steam bania. " If there are white Russian bath, thee are must be black ones too", attentive readers say and they will be quite right. There were such bath. First, before the appearance of the white bath our ancestors had black bath.
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A Russian proverb says: " Who takes a bath doesn't grow age that day". If you take a bath, it means you improving your health. High temperature in the bath activates your sweat glands and normalize water-salt exchange. The skin becomes elastic and silky. Together with sweat all toxins get out of your body.
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In the ninetieth of XIX century a statuette of Phukuruma, the good-natured bald-headed old sage, was brought to the Moscow toy workshop " Children's upbringing " from the island of Honshu in Japan by Alexandra Mamontova, the youngest daughter of the famous patron of art Savva Mamontov. It consisted of some figures nestled inside one another.
A wood turner, whose name was Vasiliy Zvyozdochkin, working then in this workshop, had turned similar wooden figures, which were put one into another. Then Sergey Malyutin, a Russian painter, painted them in imitation girls and boys. The first Matreshka doll was painted as a girl in common urban dress, representing sarafan, pinafore, kerchief with the painted cock. The toy consisted of eight nesting dolls. The image of the girl alternated with the image of the boy, differing from each other. The last one looked a swaddled baby.
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