Sunday 5 October 2014

Anna Selezneva


Anna Selezneva
I like going to the bathhouse. In Russia, it’s a very big tradition. There are two in Moscow [that I go to]: One has been around for 135 years. And the second one is basically like a brick oven. They make it hot—all night long they put wood in the stove—and then the construction of the room itself is very different. You go upstairs and there is a wooden platform with gaps to let the steam through. Nowhere else in the world has anything like this—the temperature goes up to 110 degrees.  It’s so good for your skin…it’s not like a steam room, which is always the same temperature—there’s circulation, so the air is clean.