Relax and experience real russian culture in the historical centre of st petersburg experience a traditional water treatment for the body in one of the most anient baths in russia yamskiye baths it was named after feodor dostoyevsky the russian writer who was a frequent guest of the baths as well as mussorgsky the russian composer alexander blok and nikolay gumilev russian poets and even vladimir lenin the russian revolutionary leader and bolshevik try the birch juniper or oak