Like patito, I suggest reading Alexander Solzhenitsyn's books on WWI, the Revolution and the Gulags. Patito, did you read his book 'One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich'? It's about the life of a person in a Soviet work camp and his attempt to survive.
That's incorrect, my friend. All that people were dead by 1916. Special thanks to tsar's generals strategical abilities and concern for peoples lives.
That was the main reason for bloody revolutions and civil war.
That's incorrect. Peter the Great, two hundred years before the photo, banned beards (or instituted a bear tax? I forgot), but Peter himself had a mustache and the beard law did not last for long--only a few years. Just think about it, the last two Tsars had beards, Tolstoy had a beard, Chekhov had a beard.
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Anyone interested in learning about what probably happened to these men may wish to read Alexander Solzhenitsyn's trilogy about the First World War and the Russian Revolution, beginning with "August:1914."
thats because the tsar put a law into effect to westernize the country in dress, appearance and industry, you could actually get a fine for having facial hair in some areas, because it was unwestern