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Hello - Now up for sale is RUSSIAN CRIMINAL TATTOO ENCYCLOPEDIA VOLUME II . Published in 2006 by Fuel Publishing in the UK. Hardcover book in dust jacket. 400 pages with black & white photographic illustrations and drawings. Book measures 5 1/4" x 8". This second volume of the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopedia is an essential companion to the critically acclaimed first volume (a third volume has subsequently appeared). It features previously unpublished drawings and photographs from the extraordinary archives of Danzig Baldaev and Sergei Vasiliev. During his lifetime as a guard in St. Petersburg's notorious Kresty Prison, Baldaev dilligently recorded over three thousand criminals' tattoos and their coded meanings. His drawings form a unique gallery; a passport into a hidden world of shovel-faced politicians, skeletons pushing wheelbarrows, salami-wielding prostitutes, fornicating devils, messages tangled in barbed wire and monkeys in uniform. Tattoos on hands, feet, legs, torsos, foreheads, eyelids, buttocks and genitals all take their place in this fascinating document of a rapidly disappearing criminal society, where history, status and even sexual preference are indelibly etched on the body. With an introduction by Anne Applebaum, winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Gulag: A History . Now out of print and very tough to find!! A fine copy in a clean dust jacket! Buyer to pay for shipping and handling: $3.00 MEDIA MAIL in United States . Overseas postage determined by destination; please inquire before purchasing! We accept PayPal or personal checks. Visit the rest of our eBay store; combine purchases and save on postage! Thanks for looking and
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