Drawings from the Gulag
Drawings from the Gulag Drawings from the Gulag consists of 130 drawings by Danzig Baldaev (author of the acclaimed Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia series), describing the history, horror and…
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Drawings from the Gulag
Drawings from the Gulag consists of 130 drawings by Danzig Baldaev (author of the acclaimed Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia series), describing the history, horror and peculiarities of the Gulag system from its inception in 1918. Petersburg's notorious Kresty prison, where Danzig worked as a guard. Baldaev's father, a respected ethnographer, taught him techniques to record the tattoos of criminals in St.
who unexpectedly offered support for his work, allowing him the opportunity to travel across the former U.S.S.R. He was reported to the K.G.B. Witnessing scenes of everyday life in the Gulag, he chronicled this previously closed world from both sides of the wire.
With every vignette, Baldaev brings the characters he depicts to vivid life: from the lowest "zek" (inmate) to the most violent tattooed "vor" (thief), all the practices and inhabitants of the Gulag system