‘It’s Like Nirvana’: Inside the Banya, Russia’s Centuries-Old Winter Refuge
by Evan Gershkovich (The Moscow Times)
Steam dispersion is a banya art.
The wind was whipping up snow, which meant that there was no place in the world Alexei Koltsov would rather be than the banya — the Russian bathhouse.
‘It’s Like Nirvana’: Inside the Banya, Russia’s Centuries-Old Winter Refuge