Russian bath

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Mancuso is first glimpsed in the second episode in his lair deep in the basement of a Russian bath house.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2025

It is always wise to give beef-tea, even just before a bath of any kind, and it is never well to enter the Russian bath on an empty stomach.

From The Opium Habit by Day, Horace B.

It is a sort of intellectual Russian bath, in which the luxury consists in the exaggerated alternative between being scalded first and rolled in the snow afterwards.

From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Lever, Charles James

Cousin Giles and his companions declared, after the description they had heard, that they should be anxious to take a true Russian bath before they left the country.

From Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar by Landells, R. T.

The evening after my arrival I returned early to my lodgings to indulge in a Russian bath.

From Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life by Knox, Thomas Wallace