Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I colonialism The photographs are accompanied by

The photographs are accompanied by essays by art historian Martha Langford and cultural studies specialist Jody Berland

a young Leo Tolstoy set himself three immediate aims: to gamble

A haunting reminder of how fragile freedom can be

but their distinctive style

This book was shortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize 2018

Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I colonialism The photographs are accompanied byThe photographs, drawings and texts published in this book are part of a collection of more than 3,000 tattoos accumulated over a lifetime by prison attendant Danzig Baldaev. Tattoos were his gateway into a secret world in which he acted as ethnographer, recording the rituals of a closed society. The icons and tribal languages he documented are artful, distasteful, sexually explicit and sometimes just strange, reflecting as they do the lives and