Description: The photographs, drawings and texts published in this book are part of a collection of more than 3,000 tattoos accumulated over a lifetime by prison attendant Danzig Baldaev. Tattoos were his gateway into a secret world in which he acted as ethnographer, recording the rituals of a closed society. The icons and tribal languages he documented are artful, distasteful, sexually explicit and sometimes just strange, reflecting as they do the lives and traditions of Russian convicts. Skulls, swastikas, harems of naked women, a smiling Al Capone, medieval knights in armor, daggers sheathed in blood, benign images of Christ, sweet-faced mothers and their babies, armies of tanks, and a horned Lenin - these are the signs by which the people of this hidden world mark and identify themselves. Thank you for checking out my books; I have many more to list, please check back
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Book Title: Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I
Number of Pages: 400 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Fuel Publishing
Topic: BODYART & Tattooing, Penology, Customs & Traditions
Publication Year: 2009
Item Height: 1 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Art, Social Science
Item Weight: 16.2 Oz
Item Length: 8.2 in
Author: Fuel
Item Width: 5 in
Format: Hardcover
