Vitali/Tattoos

• Chest - Jesus on Cross - "Prince of Thieves"

• Chest - «Пусть будет сном что пережито мною» - “Let all I have lived be as if it were a dream”

• Left Abdomen - Madonna with Open Heart and Knives Through It

[*]Left Abdomen - «Себя не обманешь» - ”Can not fool yourself” [*]Right Abdomen - Death with a Scythe/Reaper [*]Right Abdomen - «Я здесь и я жду» - ”I’m here and I’m waiting” [*]Upper Back - Church Under Three Cupolas - Served three different prison sentences [*]Upper Back - «Важно оставаться человеком» - "It is important to remain a human being" [*]Lower Back - «Раб судьбы но не лакей закона» - "I'm a slave to fate but no lackey to the law" [*]Lower Back - Cross [*]Right Upper Arm - Black Raven [*]Right Upper Arm - «Черный ворон, я не твой» - “Black raven, I’m not yours (yet)” [*]Left Upper Arm - Skull With Flowers - High-ranking gang member who is a murderer, possibly celebrated a teenage birthday in prison [*]Left Upper Arm - «наперекор судьбе» - ”In spite of destiny” [*]Left Forearm - «буду на свободе» - "I will be free" [*]Left Forearm - «Не верь, не бойся, не проси» - "Don't trust, don't be afraid, don't beg" [*]Right Forearm - «Пошли вы све нах**!» - “Fuck you all!” [*]Right Forearm - Snake Twined Around Dagger - “We live by fighting” [*]Left Forearm and Right Thigh - Hot Cross Button - "Whatever you do with me, I am free" [*]Left Shoulder - Spider Web - Thief, possibly had a drug addiction [*]Leg - «дальше в лес больше дров» - When you go deeper into something the problems are getting bigger/ the more questions there are, the more things get worse [*]Right Thigh - Madonna with [very large] Child - Thief/criminal from early days (Madonna is an apotropaic symbol intended to "ward off evil" or "avert or combat evil") [*]Left Wrist - Barbed Wire - Often the prison term in years is shown by the number of 'barbs' on the wire [*]Right and Left Ankles - Ankle Chains - Refers back to the time of Peter the Great, when prisoners were commonly shackled by the ankles [*]Right and Left Insteps - Phrases in Russian "Where the hell are you going?" "What the hell do you care?" [*]Knees and Collarbones - Stars - Commonly represent time served; each point indicates a year served in jail - eight-point stars (usually placed under the collarbones or on the knees) are only allowed for thieves in law, the alfa dogs of underworld -stars tattooed on the knees mean the person bows to no authority [*]Finger – left hand, below thumb - Three Dots signifies a three year prison term [*]Finger – left ring finger - St. Petersburg Cross - For having been in a prison in St. Petersburg [*]Finger - left knuckles/hand - «cebep» - “North", indicating the northern part of Russia where the strictest prisons are located for the most notorious murderers and thieves