“In Moscow, we would go to the banya every Thursday night to steam up, then sit down and have a meal afterwards,” Kizenko ...

On the day Michael Uspenski and I met, we slapped each other with brooms of oak branches. The practice, called platza, is a therapeutic treatment traditionally performed in a Russian sauna known as a ...

As cold winter chills freeze our Garden State, the thought of stepping into a hot, steamy sanctuary sounds like pure bliss. Bear and Birch in Freehold is one of New Jersey’s most authentic Russian ...