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A Tax on Beards? Inside One Russian Tsar’s War on Traditionalism
Archie McKinlay explores the tax on beards. The early 18th century was a period of great upheaval for Russia, where one coercive tsar went as far as introducing a tax on beards as part of his mission to modernise Russian society.