A historian with dark intentions unearthed around 150 burial sites to dress up the bodies of young girls for birthday festivities and to read them fairytales.
Anatoly Moskvin, a well-educated individual fluent in 13 languages and respected as a local historian in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, engaged in a disturbing hobby. Despite his scholarly persona, he had a macabre secret. In 2011, authorities made a shocking discovery of 29 mummified bodies of girls and young women inside Moskvin’s residence.
The bodies had been taken from local graves, embalmed using a homemade solution, and meticulously arranged to look like life-sized dolls. Moskvin disturbedly exhumed girls aged three to 12 to fulfill his twisted desires.
He then brought them to his home, where he converted them into a chilling collection of mummies by dressing them in clothing, including one fashioned to resemble a teddy bear.
Inside Moskvin’s residence, a video showcased a hallway filled with bridal gowns and colorful attire, focusing on the girls’ faces covered in fabric. His eerie voice on the video stated: “These dolls are made of mummified human remains.”
Authorities found that Moskvin had collected detailed information about each girl he had exhumed and had created instructions for making dolls from human remains.
Moskvin, born in 1966, had spent years immersed in death rituals. He claimed his fixation originated from a traumatic childhood event, recounted in a publication where he described a disturbing incident involving a young girl’s funeral.
Following his arrest, Moskvin was declared mentally unfit for trial due to paranoid schizophrenia. He has been in a psychiatric facility ever since, refusing to apologize to the families of the girls he desecrated.
Recent reports suggest that doctors are recommending his release to be placed under the care of his relatives due to his incapacitated state.