This Volume of drawings and photographs completes the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia trilogy.
The motifs depicted represent.
His recording of this esoteric world was reported to the KGB, who unexpectedly supported him, realizing the importance of being able to establish facts about convicts by reading the images on their bodies.
Danzig Baldaev\'s unparallelled ethnographic achievement, documenting more than 3,000 Tattoo drawings, was made during a lifetime working as a prison guard.
This Volume of drawings and photographs completes the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia trilogy