Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume II

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Danzig Baldaev’s father used to be an academic, an ethnologist who found himself imprisoned under Soviet rule as an enemy of the people. If truth be told much of Baldaev’s circle of relatives moved through the Soviet prison system, even as he became a guard. At his father’s suggestion, Danzig used his access to document and study the tattoos that were pervasive some of the in reality criminal portion of the prison population, the vory v zakonye, or legitimate thieves, a semi-professional class who kept their own brutal laws. All over his 30 years supervising inmates in St. Petersburg’s notorious Kresty Prison, Baldaev recorded more than 3,000 of their tattoos and parsed their meanings, in the drawings and text that made the first volume of the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopedia a bestseller. This essential second volume, which collects all-new, up to now unseen photographs and drawings, goes to the extremes of his fantastic collection. Sergei Vasiliev’s photographs authenticate the images, Baldaev’s drawings make sense of them and through them both we glimpse an peculiar world where the criminal’s position, history and even sexual preference are displayed indelibly on his body.

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