Legacy Matters
They cost thousands of dollars but what's money when it comes to immortalizing the thugs who were part of the Russian mafia. They were ruthless and you just know they thought they were cool.
The photo above is from a cemetery in the city of Yekaterinburg, the city where the Tsar and his family were executed in 1918, known in the 90s as the crime capital of Russia, otherwise the main industrial and cultural center in the eastern Urals section of Russia.
Two thousand miles away lies Dnipropetrovsk, third largest city in the Ukraine, but the sensibility of mob culture are very much the same. Everyone wanted what the others had.
Photos from English Russia with a hat tip to Scribal Terror.
Posted by Jill Fallon at February 26, 2008 5:43 PM | Permalink