Yermolov Baths

The Yermolov Baths in Pyatigorsk are named after General Alexei Petrovich Yermolov, under whose orders the first baths near the Hot Spring were rebuilt in 1819. Famous figures of 19th-century Russian culture, including Alexander Pushkin and Mikhail Glinka, as well as General Nikolai Raevsky and his family, took treatments in these wooden baths. The surviving stone building, constructed in 1880 according to the design of architect Vladimir Grozmani, has an unusual layout in the form of two connected crosses and is decorated with figured masonry and ornamental elements. At the beginning of the 20th century, the institution fully switched to mud therapy using healing mud from Lake Tambukan, performing this function until 1914.