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. Baldaevs father a respected ethnographer taught him techniques to record the tattoos of criminals in St. Petersburgs notorious Kresty prison where Danzig worked as a guard. He was reported to the K.G.B. who unexpectedly offered support for his work allowing him the op