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In Russian it was the custom to go to the bath oposlya instead of holding night. This is done in the morning and only oposlya baths approached the images. Even the governor, if "he had anything to sleep with the queen," then on the next day they both walked to the bath. A pious people considered themselves unworthy even they wash oposlya together spent night on the 2nd day to join the church and stood before the door of the temple, although in connection with Siim and were very ambiguous look and jokes, especially by young people. In the address standing at the door of the church and poured spiteful remarks.
Orthodox church strictly forbidden sexual relations in the days of serious posts. According to ancient spiritual precepts that allowed only "in Petrovo fasting and Filippova, but under the condition" observe "on Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday and празднички. Oposlya together spent night for the spouses was neotklonimym rule wash day in the bath, before we start praying before icons.

In the old days was strictly observed the rule: the groom before the marriage early days had to bathe in the bath, but then the wedding night the young went to the bath together. This custom was followed, and the kings and princes before the beginning of the XVIII century.
All foreigners pointed to a strong love of Russian pair. One of them wrote: "Almost everything in Russia paryatsya in the robust spirit, and the rest not even in the bath, and in the hot oven … But it is true amateurs who, tumbling on the grass, spread out in a furnace, ordered another close behind it damper the stove, and so paryatsya that the soul flies away! "One foreigner said:" If Russia does not enjoy a Saturday, it becomes somehow shameful and ashamed, and something is missing him. "