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# Russians dearly loved their long beards and moustaches, which Tsar Peter I took from them
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/russkie-ochen-liubili-dlinnye-borody-i-usy-kotorye-tsar-petr-i-u-nikh-otnial/
- Published: 2024-02-24T06:31:48.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:34:28.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: NB!, Monarchies, Mores, Ethnography

Russians dearly loved their long beards and moustaches, which Tsar Peter I took from them. But people prized these marks of respectability so highly that they carefully kept their shorn beards in order to be buried with them, imagining how dreadful they would look in the coffin with a bare chin