>>Agreed, Peter the Great was an exception. You have probably read Peter Massie's biography of him -- great book. For some reason one detail I remember is that crime was so rampant in Russia at the time that people slept with their money (coins) in their mouth.
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>Was that the origin of the expression "Put your money where your mouth is"?
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I doubt it. (You may have been joking).
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