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Beards and early modern fashion

In seventeenth-century Western Europe, clean-shaven faces gradually became fashionable among urban and elite men, though styles changed over time. Peter I introduced a beard levy in 1698; a 1705 decree set out shaving rules and fees for those who wished to keep a beard, and beard tokens appeared as proof of payment. [1–3]

AI-згенерована синтетична бонусна ілюстрація бритви, жетона й карти; не є зображенням реального жетона. Prompt: “Historical editorial illustration comparing Western European clean-shaven fashion and Peter the Great's Russian beard-token reform around 1698–1705: on a desk, an old shaving razor and a small round beard token beside a 17th-century map of Europe. Avoid caricature, no readable text, no invented portrait, muted archival watercolor.”

AI-згенерована синтетична бонусна ілюстрація бритви, жетона й карти; не є зображенням реального жетона. Prompt: “Historical editorial illustration comparing Western European clean-shaven fashion and Peter the Great's Russian beard-token reform around 1698–1705: on a desk, an old shaving razor and a small round beard token beside a 17th-century map of Europe. Avoid caricature, no readable text, no invented portrait, muted archival watercolor.”