Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume II Henk Schiffmacher Built for: Japanese art collectors

Built for: Japanese art collectors

Beginning his tattoo career at sixteen

Sarutahiko

Introduction by Anne Applebaum (Pulitzer Prize–winning historian)

A series of candid

Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume II Henk Schiffmacher Built for: Japanese art collectorsA deeper dive into the Baldaev archivepreviously unpublished drawings and photographs that document the coded language of Russian prison tattoos. Volume II is the essential companion to the first Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia, expanding the archive with previously unpublished drawings and photographs from Danzig Baldaev and Sergei Vasiliev. Baldaev spent decades working as a guard at St Petersburgs Kresty Prison, documenting over 3,000 tattoos