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| Picture No | 10198397 |
| Date | circa 1698 |
| Description | PETER AS HAIRDRESSER |
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Determined to westernise his country, Peter forbids the wearing of beards at court and taxes those who retain them : he personally shaves some of his boyar entourage.
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| Source | Engraving by an unnamed artist in Scribner's Magazine 1880 from a caricature of the time |
| Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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