Russian bath-house - an integral part of national culture of Russia. The first written mentions of domestic steam bath-houses concern to pre-Christian times. Still Herodotus marked, that inhabitants of old Russian steppes always had among the settlements special huts with eternally burning fire, " where heated stones until red and on them watered water and in hot pairs washed the bodies ".

Centuries have passed away, but Russians have not changed the favorite tradition - visiting a bath-house. In days of Peter the Great construction of bath-houses was in every possible way encouraged and duties did not undertake their construction. " Elixirs well, and the bath-house is better ", - Peter said.

The body at orthodox Christians always called as a temple for soul, and soul a temple for spirit, therefore and the maintenance of both temples should be appropriate.

A ceremony of ablution by water as the symbol of clarification is known in Orthodoxy as sacrament of a christening.

Bath ceremony of ablution can be compared to a ceremony of a christening on that similar essence which they bear in themselves - the culmination moment of these sacraments is clarification.

" In a healthy body - the healthy mind ", - was spoken our ancestors. At all times Russian people had the universal tool for improvement of soul, a body and spirit. It is Russian bath-house which grants to the person an opportunity of a unification with the Nature and through it  with the Lord.