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Anatoly Moskvin was a respected historian (Image: CEN)
A disturbed historian defiled as many as 150 burial sites to dress up the remains of young girls for birthday parties and read them bedtime stories.
On the surface, Anatoly Moskvin seemed like an exemplary scientist; Speaks 13 languages, travels widely, is a university lecturer and a respected local historian in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia’s fifth largest metropolis.
He was also considered an unlikely but harmless authority on cemeteries, calling himself a “necropolist” and having extensive knowledge of the deceased.
However, beneath this academic appearance lay a chilling nightmare. In 2011, authorities uncovered something deeply disturbing that sent shockwaves across the country: the mummified bodies of 29 girls and young women in Moskvin’s apartment.
The bodies were taken from nearby cemeteries, preserved with a makeshift chemical process, and meticulously dressed and arranged to resemble life-size dolls.
Anatoly Moskvin had a terrible explanation for his behavior (Image: EuroPics[CEN])
To fulfill his perverted urges, Moskvin exhumed the bodies of girls ranging in number from 3 to 12.
He then took them home and turned them into a terrifying collection of mummies, dressing the corpses and skeletons in socks and dresses, and even fashioning one to look like a teddy bear. reports the mirror.
Footage recorded by Moskvin and uncovered by investigators at his property showed a corridor filled with wedding gowns and bright, colorful garments. In one of the rooms, the camera was looking at the faces of girls covered in pale beige fabric.
His raspy voice on the recording said: “These dolls are made from mummified human remains.”
One of the mummified bodies was found in Moskvin’s house (Image: Police)
Police discovered that Moskvin collected up-to-date information on each girl he exhumed and created computer printouts with instructions for making dolls from human remains.
Born in 1966, Moskvin spent a significant part of his life in death rituals. He later attributed this obsession to a sad event he experienced in his childhood.
Moskvin, a regular writer for ‘Necrologies’, a Russian weekly magazine focusing on cemeteries and obituaries, described an incident he experienced in 1979, when he was just 13 years old.
He claimed that he was waylaid by a group of men in black suits on his way home from school. They were going to the funeral of an 11-year-old girl named Natasha Petrova.
Moskvin said these men forced him to the coffin and kissed the dead girl, an experience that haunted him for the rest of his life.
“I kissed her once, then again, then again,” she wrote on her account.
According to Moskvin, the dead girl’s grieving mother then placed a wedding ring on her finger and another on her daughter’s lifeless hand. “My strange marriage with Natasha Petrova was beneficial,” he said.
Following his arrest, Moskvin was deemed unfit to stand trial due to his mental state and was admitted to a psychiatric hospital after being diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
One of the mummified bodies was found in Moskvin’s house (Image: Police)
He has remained there ever since, refusing to offer any apology to the families of those he exhumed.
A spokesman for the prosecution had previously stated: “After observing him in a psychiatric clinic for three years, it is absolutely clear that Moskvin is mentally unfit to stand trial. He will therefore be kept in the clinic for psychiatric treatment.”
Last October, reports emerged that doctors had suggested he could now return home.
According to Russian news outlet Shot, medical experts are “submitting documents to the court to discharge the patient and place him in the care of his relatives.”
