The father of modern Russia taxed
wearers of these in the year 1706 in which the only orthodox clergy was
exempted from having this to be taxed, and the one that is being taxed to other
people is the beard. It is because the father of modern Russia wanted to
imitate the European men by not having to wear beards in a way of having to
modernized Russia, so he imposed a taxed to those men who wore their beards.
