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A Russian barber cuts off the beard of an Old Believer. In 1705, as part of his ruthless campaign of modernisation, Peter the Great imposed a tax on beards of up to 100 roubles

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The ocean that Christopher Oldstone-Moore has set out to chart is as broad as it is shallow: what it has…

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