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Boris Kustodiyev, Russian Venus (1925–1926)
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Finnish birch vihta
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Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, a public banya (1760s)
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A sauna whisk ( Estonian: viht; Finnish: vasta or vihta; Lithuanian: vanta; Russian: банный веник, IPA: [ˈbanːɨj ˈvʲenʲɪk]) or bath broom is a besom, or broom, used for bathing in saunas and Russian banyas. [2] [3] [4]
Finnish sauna bathers sometimes whip each other with water-soaked whisks of birch branches to stir up skin circulation and perfume the air with woodsy fragrance.
President Ford, after beating himself with birch branches, pronounced his first Finnish sauna delightful.
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A sauna whisk ( Estonian: viht; Finnish: vasta or vihta; Lithuanian: vanta; Russian: банный веник, IPA: [ˈbanːɨj ˈvʲenʲɪk]) or bath broom is a besom, or broom, used for bathing in saunas and Russian banyas. [2] [3] [4]
Finnish sauna bathers sometimes whip each other with water-soaked whisks of birch branches to stir up skin circulation and perfume the air with woodsy fragrance.
President Ford, after beating himself with birch branches, pronounced his first Finnish sauna delightful.