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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume II
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Danzig Baldaev's father was an academic, an ethnologist who found himself imprisoned under Soviet rule as an enemy of the people. In fact much of Baldaev's family moved through the Soviet prison system, while he became a guard. At his father's suggestion, Danzig used his access to document and study the tattoos that were pervasive among the truly criminal portion of the prison population, the vory v zakonye, or legitimate thieves, a semi-professional class who kept their own brutal laws.
During 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, previously unseen photographs and drawings, goes to the extremes of his incredible collection. Sergei Vasiliev's photographs authenticate the images, Baldaev's drawings make sense of them and through them both we glimpse an extraordinary world where the criminal's position, history and even sexual preference are displayed indelibly on his body.
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@Belmonta.. The word overrated does not and cannot pertain to tattoos. Damn some people are just really that dumb.
@wasoncedead.. Please tell me what a prison or criminal tat is? See morons like you love to act like u have a clue. A prison tattoo doesn't refer to the art or design of the tattoo. Is jailhouse or prison tat is called as such because of the way it was done. Mostly being a makeshift gun with no serialization. What's up with the kids today posting comments about tattoos which they clearly no nothing about? Why even comment
Was going to give props to 'Frankjc81' up until he used the phrase "extreamly uneducated" at which point he lost all credibility. If you decide to call someone out for being uneducated, you should atleast make sure that you can spell properly. That would be EXTREMELY wise....
comments rock. I feel like I'm on 4chan.
@ian... I am using a iphone by the way and type pretty quickly so there are always misspelled words when I type because I have the spell check is weirded out on this thing since its jailbroken. Not sure why that happened. Having said that, being uneducated about this situation has nothing to do with how a word gets misspelled on a forum or blog. When we make comments on things like this, the point if the comment is to prove a point. I mean should I call you out for trying to prove a point about grammar and yet you said "atleast" when that word does not exist. The point was made though so why care about spelling or grammar issues?
Why my comment has been cancelled?
@almaz72 автор - Данциг Балдаев. Я ответила ранее, но почему-то мой комментарий удалили :(
хера се,хочу себе такую,только на русском
@miolanov Есть на русском. Хочешь, данные сообщу.