Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #576271 in Books
• Published on: 2004-04-05
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 400 pages

Customer Reviews

Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia.
This is truly one of those life changing books. It is surreal, vulgar, explicit and tender in equal measure. I have an interest in tattooing but my wife does not and she was as taken by the Alice in Wonderland otherness of this book as I was. Everything you have never nor will ever need to know about the Russian criminal underground and it's bizarrely profane tattoo culture.

Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopedia- Volume III
This is'nt an encyclopedia in the sense of a book with entries arranged in alphabetical order. We get a large number of black and white photographs and neat line drawings, accompanied by descriptions and context which are detailed enough to make this book useful to serious students of Soviet/Russian society and the Gulag prison camp system. Readers of Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Irina Ratushinskaya will not be disappointed by the information content. Men's and Women's tattoos are depicted, with motifs ranging from the sentimental through the profane to the blackly humourous.
This is a nicely produced book with cloth covered hardback binding, embossed on front and back covers. Directors of major Law enforcement agencies may wish to invest in the attractive but rather expensive three volume box set. Recommended.

gift
I bought this book as a gift for a friend, i haven't read it personally,but he seems to have enjoyed it and found it most informative.