Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I Carnegie Medal Nominee (2021) Eisenhower

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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I Carnegie Medal Nominee (2021) EisenhowerOccasionally a book is published that reveals a subculture you never dreamt existed. More rarely, that book goes on to become a phenomenon of its own. The 2004 publication of the "Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia" was such a phenomenon, spawning two further volumes and alerting a fascinated readership worldwide to the extraordinary and hermetic world of Russian criminal tattoos (David Cronenberg, for example, made regular use of the