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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume II: v. II Book
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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume II : Hardback : FUEL Publishing : 9780955006128 : 0955006120 : 20 Jun 2013 : Working as a prison guard in St Petersburgs notorious Kresty Prison, the author diligently recorded over 3,000 criminal tattoos, documenting their meanings within this closed society. This title explores the extremes of this collection.
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Blackwell
During his 30 years supervising inmates in St. Petersburg's notorious Kresty Prison, Baldaev recorded over 3,000 of their tattoos and parsed their meaning, revealing an extraordinary world where the criminal's position, history and even sexual...
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Pickabook
Danzig Baldaev, Sergei Vasiliev (Illus), Damon Murray (Editor)
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Product Description
Danzig Baldaevís father was an academic, an ethnologist who found himself imprisoned under Soviet rule as an enemy of the people. In fact much of Baldaevís family moved through the Soviet prison system, while he became a guard. At his father's suggestion, he 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 keep their own brutal laws. During his 30 years supervising inmates in St. Petersburgís notorious Kresty Prison, Baldaev recorded over 3,000 of their tattoos and parsed their meaning--the nihilistic creativity of a closed society--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 Vasilievís photographs authenticate the images, Baldaev's drawings make sense of them, and through them both we glimpse an extraordinary world where the criminalís position, history and even sexual preference are displayed indelibly on his body, and that marked body serves as a passport into the underworld.
- 0955006120
- 9780955006128
- Danzig Baldaev, Sergei Vasiliev
- 3 July 2006
- FUEL
- Hardcover (Book)
- 400
- illustrated edition
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