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Sandunóvskie Baths (Сандуно́вские бани) or Sanduný (Сандуны́) is a bathhouse in Moscow, Russia that was first opened in 1808. Its building is a cultural and architectural landmark in Moscow center located at 14 Neglinnaya street. The name is derived from a Georgian nobleman Sila Nikolaevich Sandunov (Zandukeli in Georgian) (1756—1820), who was an actor at the court of Catherine II in during the 1790s. He bought a land plot on the Neglinnaya River in 1800 to construct baths there. In 1869, owned by merchant and landlord Ivan Grigorievich Firsanov, the baths were willed to Ivan Firsanov's only daughter, Vera Ivanovna, after his death in 1881. After Vera divorced with her first husband, she married again to the officer Alexey Nikolayevich Ganetskiy, who was a son of General Nikolai Stepanovich Ganetskiy, participant of the Crimean War. Alexey proposed the idea of building new baths of the like Moscow had never before seen on the place of the decaying building. In 1894, Ganetskiy hired a well-known architect Boris Viktorovich Freidenberg, but he dropped the project and left Moscow. However, the baths were finished by S.M. Kalugin and opened on February 14, 1896. The baths received water via a specially built aqueduct from the Babyegorodskaya Dam on the Moscow River and from 700 feet of artesian well. Electrical illumination was provided by a private electric power station, which was also used on the coronation of Nikolai II. Besides the baths, Sanduny also included a hotel, restaurants, and even the ''Zoological shop of F. A. Achilles''. Sanduny was serviced by approximately 400 attendants. Not long after completion, Ganetskiy lost ownership of Sanduny playing cards; afterward, Vera Ivanovna paid his debts and divorced again. == External links == * (Official site of Sanduny ) * (Sanduny Baths ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sanduny」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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