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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopedia Volume III: 3 (Hardcover)

by Danzig Baldaev (Author), Damon Murray (Editor), Stephen Sorrell (Editor), Sergei Vasiliev (Photographer)
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  • Hardcover: 400 pages
  • Publisher: FUEL; illustrated edition edition (8 Oct 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0955006198
  • ISBN-13: 978-0955006197
  • Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 12.4 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 105,968 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This final volume of previously unpublished drawings and photographs completes the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopadia trilogy. Danzig Baldaevs unparalleled ethnographic achievement, documenting over 3,000 tattoo drawings, was made during a lifetime working as a prison guard. The motifs depicted represent the uncensored lives of the criminal classes, ranging from violence and pornography to politics and alcohol. A medieval knight is surrounded by the severed heads of his enemies, a naked woman simultaneously services a man and two dwarfs, a crying President Gorbachev grips a human bone between sabre-like fangs, a group of angels drinks vodka with God on a cloud the meanings of these arresting images are explained to the uninitiated eye. Accompanied by graphic photographs showing the grim reality of the Russian prison system and some of the alarming characters that inhabit it, the illustrated criminals of Russia tell the tale of their closed society.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia., 26 May 2005
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This is truly one of those life changing books. It is surreal, vulgar, explicit and tender in equal measure. I have an interest in tattooing but my wife does not and she was as taken by the Alice in Wonderland otherness of this book as I was. Everything you have never nor will ever need to know about the Russian criminal underground and it's bizarrely profane tattoo culture.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopedia- Volume III, 27 Jul 2009
By J. Southworth (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This is'nt an encyclopedia in the sense of a book with entries arranged in alphabetical order. We get a large number of black and white photographs and neat line drawings, accompanied by descriptions and context which are detailed enough to make this book useful to serious students of Soviet/Russian society and the Gulag prison camp system. Readers of Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Irina Ratushinskaya will not be disappointed by the information content. Men's and Women's tattoos are depicted, with motifs ranging from the sentimental through the profane to the blackly humourous.
This is a nicely produced book with cloth covered hardback binding, embossed on front and back covers. Directors of major Law enforcement agencies may wish to invest in the attractive but rather expensive three volume box set. Recommended.
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3.0 out of 5 stars gift, 1 Feb 2009
I bought this book as a gift for a friend, i haven't read it personally,but he seems to have enjoyed it and found it most informative.
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