Russian Dacha Diary

Mark Rykoff

The Banya is Built
In 2005, we managed to obatin the raw materials for building a sauna. Here, my brother-in-law Dima gets help from two local teens whom we hired to help finish the interior of the bathhouse, behind them in this photo.

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