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Russian Misopogon: Peter I, shaving and ten million "Muscovites"

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Peter the Great's famous order on bearding, more like an anecdote than a well-considered initiative of Russia's wise transformer, has never been the subject of special analysis. Evgeny Akeliev takes up the research of this topic and finds in it a great potential for studying the nature of power in Peter the Great's Russia. Why did the tsar need to introduce compulsory barbering at the most tense moment of the Great Northern War? What everyday practices were associated with this decree? Why were opponents of the decree willing to sacrifice their lives for their right to wear beards? The search for answers to these questions gave the author the opportunity to describe important changes in the relationship between the state and society in Russia in the late seventeenth and first third of the eighteenth century. Evgeny Akeliev is a candidate of historical sciences, associate professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics.

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