Skeletons pushing wheelbarrows, salami-wielding prostitutes, fornicating devils, farting crocodiles, gorillas with hammer and sickle, monkeys in uniform and even some pretty good images of Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan - during his lifetime as a guard in St. Petersburg's notorious Kresty prison, Danzig Baldaev diligently recorded over three thousand criminals' tattoos and their coded meanings.
Tattoos on hands, feet, legs, torsos, foreheads, eyelids, buttocks and genitals all take their place in this fascinating document of a rapidly disappearing society, where history, status and even sexual preference are indelibly etched on the body.
This third [ and last ] volume of the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia is an essential companion to the critically acclaimed first two volumes. It features previously unpublished drawings and photographs from Baldaev's extraordinary archives.

English text
20 x 12 cm
400 pages
Clothbound hardcover with dust jacket