Russian Criminal Tattoo: Police Files Volume 1

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Russian Criminal Tattoo Police Files Volume I features more than 180 photographs of Russian criminal tattoos and official police papers from the collection of Arkady Bronnikov, regarded as Russia's foremost authority on criminal tattoo iconography. From the mid-1960s to the late 1980s, Bronnikov worked as a senior expert in criminalistics at the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, and part of his duties involved visiting the correctional institutions of the Ural and Siberia regions. It was there that he interviewed convicts, gathering information and taking photographs of their tattoos, amassing one of the most comprehensive archives of this phenomenon.

• Cover Type Hardcover
• Year of publication 2016
• Pages 256 pages
• Language: English
• Dimensions width 133 mm, height 210 mm, thickness 30 mm
• Weight 524g
• Pictures 180 pictures