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This year in history
In the year 1698

September
5th

Tsar Peter I of Russia imposed a tax on beards which required all men, except priests and peasants, to pay an annual fee of one hundred rubbles, to be allowed to carry a beard. The tax was part of an effort to move the Russian people away from Asiatic cultural traits and closer to western archetypes.

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