Bearded men in the power and business

300 years ago, on April 17, 1722, Peter I issued the decree about tax on beards. The sum for those years impressive — 50 rubles a year. Who from modern politicians and businessmen should pay in imperial times — in a photo gallery newspaper "Kommersant". In December, 2012 the deputy of the Petersburg Legislative Assembly Vitaly Milonov (since 2016 the deputy of State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation) admitted, why got a beard: "I have it somehow itself grew incidentally in the summer. It seems to me goes. Though skin thin and not always a beard — it is convenient. But all at us in church with beards, and I too. Besides, maybe, will expel me now from parliament, and I already with...