Boris Kustodiyev, Russian Venus (1925–1926)
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Asauna whisk (Estonian: viht; Finnish: vastaorvihta; 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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