September 5 in #Russia: 1015 — by order of Svyatopolk the Accursed, brother Gleb Vladimirovich, later canonized as the first Passion-bearing princes, was killed. 1698 - A tax on beards was introduced in Russia. 1774 — Troops under the command of Lieutenant Colonel I. I. Mikhelson dealt a decisive defeat to the forces of Emelyan Pugachev at the Solenikova gang. 1775 — The casting of the monument to Peter I (The Bronze Horseman) was begun, with supervision entrusted to the foundryman E.