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This is a book about tattoos that have criminal meanings in Russia. It is a second volume of a book and it contains new drawings, text, and photographs. Danzig Baldaev has been working as a prison guard for 50 years and he has collected 3,000 tattoos that have criminal meanings. This book further explores the extremes of Baldaev's collection.
The second volume of the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia contains completely new drawings, text and photographs from Danzig Baldaev and Sergei Vasiliev. During his fifty years working as a prison guard in St Petersburg's notorious Kresty Prison, Baldaev diligently recorded over 3,000 criminal tattoos, documenting their meanings within this closed society. This volume further explores the extremes of this incredible collection. Published 3rd July 2006, reprinted in 2011.
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