スミソニアン博物館のインスタグラム(smithsonian) - 11月30日 06時25分

#NoShaveNovember? Not in 17th-century Russia, when Peter the Great outlawed facial hair in 1698.

He tried to modernize and westernize Russia, and wanted his countrymen to be clean-shaven like their European counterparts.
So he imposed a hefty tax on beards, which was on the books until 1772. If you could afford it, you paid the tax and got a token to show you'd paid for the right to have a beard.

The ban was taken seriously: If you were caught without your beard token, your facial hair could be cut off on the spot.

This Russian beard token from 1705 is now part of the National Numismatic Collection at our @国立アメリカ歴史博物館.

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