Sick history teacher dug up little girls and turned them into dolls at his home
A disturbed historian dug up as many as 150 burial sites so he could dress the remains of young girls for birthday parties and read them bedtime stories.On the surface, Anatoly Moskvin appeared to be an exemplary academic - speaking 13 languages fluently, well-travelled, a university lecturer and a highly regarded local historian in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia's fifth-largest city.He was also viewed as an unusual but harmless authority on graveyards, describing himself as a "necropolist", possessing extensive knowledge about the deceased.However, beneath this academic exterior lay a deeply troubling reality.In 2011, police uncovered something so profoundly disturbing that it shocked the entire country when they discovered the mummified corpses of 29 girls and young women within Moskvin's flat.The bodies had been taken from nearby graves, preserved through a homemade chemical process, and meticulously dressed and positioned to look like life-sized dolls.Moskvin had dug up the corpses of girls aged between 3 and 12 to fulfil his twisted compulsions.He then transported them to his residence and converted them into a macabre mummy collection, dressing the bodies and skeletons in stockings and dresses, and even creating one to look like a teddy bear, reports the Mirror.A video made by Moskvin and found at his property by investigators showed a corridor filled with wedding dresses and bright, colourful garments. In one room, the camera zoomed in on the girls' faces, covered in pale beige fabric.His unsettling voice on the footage stated: "These dolls are made of mummified human remains."Officers revealed Moskvin had also collected up-to-date information about the lives of each girl he had dug up and created computer documents containing instructions for making dolls from human remains.Born in 1966, Moskvin had spent decades studying death rituals. He subsequently claimed his obsession started with a disturbing childhood experience.Writing as a regular contributor to 'Necrologies', a specialist Russian weekly focused on cemeteries and obituaries, Moskvin recounted an incident from 1979, when he was 13.He alleged that a group of men in black suits stopped him on his way home from school. They were heading to the funeral of 11-year=old Natasha Petrova.According to Moskvin, they dragged the terrified boy to the coffin and forced him to kiss the dead girl, an encounter he claimed haunted him for the rest of his life.He wrote: "I kissed her once, then again, then again."According to Moskvin, the dead girl's grieving mother then placed a wedding ring on his finger, and another on her daughter's lifeless hand. "My strange marriage with Natasha Petrova was useful," he said.After his arrest, he was found unfit to stand trial owing to his mental condition and was sent to a psychiatric hospital following a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia.He has remained there ever since and has refused to apologise to the families of those he exhumed.A spokesperson for the prosecution previously stated: "After three years of monitoring him in a psychiatric clinic it is absolutely clear that Moskvin is not mentally fit for trial. He will therefore be kept for psychiatric treatment at the clinic."As of last October, reports suggest that doctors are now recommending his return home.According to Russian news outlet Shot, medics are "submitting documents to the court to discharge the patient and place him under the care of relatives" under the category of "incapacitated".
