As for the peasants, let a toll of two half-copecks per beard be collected at the town gates each time they enter or leave a town; and do not let the peasants pass the town gates, into or out of town, without paying this toll.
— Peter the Great Early Modern

Modernizer of Russia

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Extension of the beard tax to peasants

Date / Period

1705

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Strange & Unusual

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