Russia's Beard Tax: Peter The Great's War On Beards

In 1698, the Russian tsar Peter the Great began taxing beards. This is considered to be one of the strangest laws to be enforced by a government. I want to make more Russian History videos in the future because of the amount of intriguing information available about their history. So if you enjoyed this video please let me know down in the comments if you are interested in more videos involving Russian History.

I would also like to make note that I forgot to add a key detail in this video. I had forgotten to mention the Beard Token, which was a coin given to all those who paid the beard tax. I will leave a link to show what the beard token looked like and I truly apologize for forgetting to add this detail.

Thank you all for reading the description and I hope to see you in the next chapter! :)

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Music: Gymnopedie No 3 -Kevin MacLeod

Beard Token Image: http://ghost.emanuelb.com/demo/content/images/2015/02/the-bearded-token.png