Russian Prison Tattoos
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Russian Prison Tattoos
December 10, 2005
Russian Prison Tattoos
'According to the book of Genesis, God placed a mark on the world's first murderer before sending him into exile. The mark of Cain indelibly branded its bearer as a criminal and social outcast.
It is not known when tattooing first became a common practice in Russian prisons and Stalinist Gulags. Soviet researchers first discovered and studied this underground activity in the 1920s; photographs of prisoners from that period suggest an already elaborate and highly developed subculture. More than simple decoration, the images symbolically proclaim the wearer's background and rank within the complex social system of the jailed.'
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Russian Prison Tattoos
'According to the book of Genesis, God placed a mark on the world's first murderer before sending him into exile. The mark of Cain indelibly branded its bearer as a criminal and social outcast.
It is not known when tattooing first became a common practice in Russian prisons and Stalinist Gulags. Soviet researchers first discovered and studied this underground activity in the 1920s; photographs of prisoners from that period suggest an already elaborate and highly developed subculture. More than simple decoration, the images symbolically proclaim the wearer's background and rank within the complex social system of the jailed.'
http://www.foolishpeople.com/foolishpeo ... ison_.html
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A book that uncovers a secret language of the body that existed long before hipsters discovered primitivism. --Flash Art
Edited by Danzig Baldayev.
Once upon a time, before the advent of the indie rocker and the alternative chick, before primitivism became a style trend and tattoo parlors set up shop on the good avenues, tattoos were the secret language of a restricted world, a world of criminals. ~The photographs, drawings and texts published here are part of a collection of 3,600 tattoos accumulated over a lifetime by prison attendant Danzig Baldayev. Tattoos were his entrance into a secret world, a world in which he acted as an ethnographer, recording the rituals of a closed society. The icons and tribal languages he documented are artful, distasteful, sexually explicit and sometimes just simply strange, reflecting as they do the lives and mores of convicts. Skulls, swastikas, harems of naked women, a smiling Al Capone, assorted demons, medieval knights in armor, daggers sheathed in blood, benign images of Christ, mosques and minarets, sweet-faced mothers and their babies, armies of tanks, and a horned Lenin--these are the signs with which this hidden world of people mark and identify themselves.
Check this book out ^^^
A book that uncovers a secret language of the body that existed long before hipsters discovered primitivism. --Flash Art
Edited by Danzig Baldayev.
Once upon a time, before the advent of the indie rocker and the alternative chick, before primitivism became a style trend and tattoo parlors set up shop on the good avenues, tattoos were the secret language of a restricted world, a world of criminals. ~The photographs, drawings and texts published here are part of a collection of 3,600 tattoos accumulated over a lifetime by prison attendant Danzig Baldayev. Tattoos were his entrance into a secret world, a world in which he acted as an ethnographer, recording the rituals of a closed society. The icons and tribal languages he documented are artful, distasteful, sexually explicit and sometimes just simply strange, reflecting as they do the lives and mores of convicts. Skulls, swastikas, harems of naked women, a smiling Al Capone, assorted demons, medieval knights in armor, daggers sheathed in blood, benign images of Christ, mosques and minarets, sweet-faced mothers and their babies, armies of tanks, and a horned Lenin--these are the signs with which this hidden world of people mark and identify themselves.
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An unholy icon
Religious images remain popular among Russia’s criminal fraternity, although they rarely reflect the piety or zeal of the wearer. Some icons are badges of honour, oaths of vengeance or even symbols of devotion to the art of thievery. Others, include the Virgin Mary, are often talismans supposedly protecting the wearer from the police or rivals.
A cry from the gulag
This anti-Soviet tattoo was found on a prisoner arrested for petty hooliganism in Leningrad in 1963. It says:
Religious images remain popular among Russia’s criminal fraternity, although they rarely reflect the piety or zeal of the wearer. Some icons are badges of honour, oaths of vengeance or even symbols of devotion to the art of thievery. Others, include the Virgin Mary, are often talismans supposedly protecting the wearer from the police or rivals.
A cry from the gulag
This anti-Soviet tattoo was found on a prisoner arrested for petty hooliganism in Leningrad in 1963. It says:
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I saw it on a documentary. They were interviewing an investigator at one of the prisons there, and he showed them his collection. The skin pieces were on a board. It has to be one of the most disgusting things I have ever seen.lizard wrote:Where have you hear that? Sounds like an urban legend to me...ghill79772 wrote:One thing that is messed up is when qa prisoner dies in Russia, they cut off his skin where he has tattoos and preserve it for training purposes.
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If that's really is the truth, then yes, it's disgusting and wrong. Would imagine that photos of tattoos would be enough.ghill79772 wrote:I saw it on a documentary. They were interviewing an investigator at one of the prisons there, and he showed them his collection. The skin pieces were on a board. It has to be one of the most disgusting things I have ever seen.lizard wrote:Where have you hear that? Sounds like an urban legend to me...ghill79772 wrote:One thing that is messed up is when qa prisoner dies in Russia, they cut off his skin where he has tattoos and preserve it for training purposes.
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It was on the discovery channel or court tvlizard wrote:If that's really is the truth, then yes, it's disgusting and wrong. Would imagine that photos of tattoos would be enough.ghill79772 wrote:I saw it on a documentary. They were interviewing an investigator at one of the prisons there, and he showed them his collection. The skin pieces were on a board. It has to be one of the most disgusting things I have ever seen.lizard wrote:Where have you hear that? Sounds like an urban legend to me...ghill79772 wrote:One thing that is messed up is when qa prisoner dies in Russia, they cut off his skin where he has tattoos and preserve it for training purposes.
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2hwood wrote:stars on your shoulders mean you made man (respected averywhere) stars on your legs mean you dont care about the law...(you are the law..) crosses and pictures of churches means you killed peolpe..
stars anywhere mean the number of years in prison and a cross on the chest is the highest ranking of tattoo to get in a russian prison. also the number of towers in the church tattoo signifies the number of years in prison also
very popular woman's "portak" (prisonal tatoo) in Russia, which we can see on the girls back...Women of colour
Many female criminals also tattooed themselves, partly as a rebellious reaction to the establishment and partly to distinguish themselves as what are known as vory v zakone (thieves in law). These women were photographed at a corrective labour colony at Kungur, near Perm.
The meaning of this "portak" (prisonal tatoo) is - In expectlation of freedom and happy life
And now, wanna write about different kinds (which I know) of finger-ring tattoos (drawn on the dorsal side of fingers)
Convicted for larceny. Given to fomation of gangs.
Convicted for hooliganism. Unamenable to reforming.
Live in the prison. Underworld give me a name.
Convicted for armed robbery.
A symbol of negative attitude to law-enforcement officers.
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Convicted for larceny. Given to fomation of gangs.
Convicted for hooliganism. Unamenable to reforming.
Live in the prison. Underworld give me a name.
Convicted for armed robbery.
A symbol of negative attitude to law-enforcement officers.
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Years ago, there are no proffessional ink in the prisons of Russia, & prisons tatto masters do them (ink) from the ashes, uriney and the blue ballpens pivots...this prison tattoos has blue color...
Now there are a lot of proffesional ink from China in our prisons & people, who live there, use it...
As I know, all Russian prison tattoo's are made with needle & ink...im feeling the ink-work
Years ago, there are no proffessional ink in the prisons of Russia, & prisons tatto masters do them (ink) from the ashes, uriney and the blue ballpens pivots...this prison tattoos has blue color...
Now there are a lot of proffesional ink from China in our prisons & people, who live there, use it...
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[quote="BandeR"][b]Qdawg[/b]
[quote]im feeling the ink-work[/quote]
As I know, all Russian prison tattoo's are made with needle & ink...
Years ago, there are no proffessional ink in the prisons of Russia, & prisons tatto masters do them (ink) from the ashes, uriney and the blue ballpens pivots...this prison tattoos has blue color...
Now there are a lot of proffesional ink from China in our prisons & people, who live there, use it...[/quote]
creative@"Years ago, there are no proffessional ink in the prisons of Russia, & prisons tatto masters do them (ink) from the ashes, uriney and the blue ballpens pivots"
[quote]im feeling the ink-work[/quote]
As I know, all Russian prison tattoo's are made with needle & ink...
Years ago, there are no proffessional ink in the prisons of Russia, & prisons tatto masters do them (ink) from the ashes, uriney and the blue ballpens pivots...this prison tattoos has blue color...
Now there are a lot of proffesional ink from China in our prisons & people, who live there, use it...[/quote]
creative@"Years ago, there are no proffessional ink in the prisons of Russia, & prisons tatto masters do them (ink) from the ashes, uriney and the blue ballpens pivots"
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You wrong man...!!!russian_gangsta wrote:im russian
but i dont love russian prison.
russian prison - bitchs
==> po russki:
Nahui obsirat' lyudei svoei strani ?? Rech' idyot ne o teh kto sidit na zone (bol'shuyu chast' kotorih, ya kak i ti schitayu uyobkami...hotya est' normal'nie...) i ne ob ugolovnikah, a o tatuhah, kotorie prisutstvuyut na ih tele...
Schitayu bol'shuy chast' ih nakolok u avtoritetov - ohuennimi rabotami...proizvedeniem isskustv, daje inogda...
...hotya u obichnih otsidevshih "rasskrashenih" pazanov, eto maznya maloletki...
Rabota rabote rozn', tak chto - ne goni !!!