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Episode 22- The Moustache Mandate: When Beards Were Outlawed in Russia
In this follicularly fascinating episode of Eccentric Laws & Social Oddities, Juris Oddity unravels the strange tale of Tsar Peter the Great's beard tax in 17th-century Russia. Why did one of history’s most powerful rulers go to war against facial hair? Discover how vanity, modernization, and government control collided—one whisker at a time.
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