Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume III Hardcover – Illustrated, November 1, 2008

A rich source - a treasure chest - for the interested! Very seriously investigated, this book offers a deep look into original russian tattoos, a fascinating explanation and analysis included. The pictures are documentary - don‘t expect artwork.Highly recommendable!

Great book just like the other two in the set if your interested in tattoo cultures check it out.

I bought this as part of research for a book I'm writing. I'm writing about a hockey player whose family is Russian. Don't know if they will have tatoos or not. Very detailed book and well worth the price. I have all three books in the series.

My son-on-law is a graphics design professional artist and also has interest in tattoo design though he does not even have a single tattoo himself. These books were on his wish list and they complete the 3-book set. He loves them.

My collection of Danzig's books are now complete and I will hold on to these until I die because I will be cremated and it's difficult to hold things without hands. Good for tattoos artist..... can start a wall of what tattoos not to get

Great book! This one gives me a ton of ideas!

Fantastic book if your a collector of this series.

This is a great book for those who want detailed knowledge on Russian criminal tattoos. In conjunction of parts I and II, it's an education in body art and crime.

The best known bookseries about russian criminal tattoos. Theres some internal discrepancies about the meaning of some tattoos, and the contents are just piled together but still interesting.

got all three books on this series. lovely collection if you are interested in subject matter . got interested in this area after watching the film eastern promise .

Ended up buying the whole collection. Very good books on a very special subject.

This is not an encyclopedia in the usual sense of a book with entries arranged in alphabetical order. There are a large number of black and white photographs and neat pen drawings of tattoos, 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 find material to interest them here. Men's and Women's tattoos are depicted, with motifs ranging from the sentimental through the profanely offensive to the blackly humourous.This is a nicely produced book with cloth covered hardback binding, embossed on front and back covers. As recently as 25 years ago, it's contents would have had limited relevance outside of the Soviet Union. But given the increasing globalisation of crime today, police officers might this book useful, if only to get an idea of what they might be dealing with on a bad day at the office.

arrived quickly, a nice present