Although the weather in St. Petersburg is cold, compared to London, living in St. Petersburg still has quite a few advantages.
For example, Arthur's long-cherished bathhouses.
The history of bathing in Russia is long-standing, perhaps because Russia considered itself the Third Rome, so it naturally inherited this essential social activity from Roman culture. Or perhaps, as Russian archaeologists have verified, due to the extreme cold of the Northern Country, the bathhouse culture became an important component in early Slavic and Finno-Ugric cultures centuries before our era.
Of course, maintaining a rigorous academic attitude, Sir Arthur Hastings, a graduate of the University of London's History Department who considers himself a researcher of Russian culture, is more inclined to the latter.
After all, the ancient bathing method known as sauna originated from the Scandinavian Peninsula and Russia, spreading to various parts of Europe through the Germanic Region.
