[12][13] Moskvin had a deep interest in cemeteries, burial rituals,[8] death,[10][11] and the occult. In May 2012, he was sentenced to court-ordered psychiatric evaluation[6][7] and has since been held in a psychiatric hospital. John Hall for MailOnline Moskvin began searching for obituaries of recently deceased children. These were not typical dolls though. He is one of the most twisted men in the world... 2. Russian Anatoly Moskvin removed the bodies of girls aged between three and 12 to fulfill his twisted fantasies. Moskvin, who speaks 13 languages and was described in court as a 'genius', gave the mummified corpses names and organised birthday parties for them. 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We are no longer accepting comments on this article. He said that his fascination with cemeteries began when he was a child. After exhuming the bodies from local graveyards, Moskvin mummified the bodies himself before dressing and posing them around his home. Free Anatoly Moskvin Anatoly Moskvin, the Russian Doll Maker. [13] Moskvin denied any sexual attraction to the dolls and instead considered them to be his children. 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His story and crimes beg the question: where is the line between “genius” and just plain “madness?” Who is Anatoly Moskvin? and He was a well-known academic, author, and expert in the history of cemeteries. -, School phrasebook Russian language / comp. A TWISTED grave robber who stole the corpses of 29 girls and dressed them up like dolls has refused to apologise to their grieving parents. The city of Nizhny Novgorod saw a rapid increase of vandalism in cemeteries. [11][12][9][13] Moskvin abstained from drinking alcohol and smoking[9] and is purportedly a virgin. After making his human dolls, he kept them in his home as his companions and lovers. His upbringing was far from easy, whilst he was in third grade, he returned home one day, covered in bruises he had received whilst being raped by an unknown man. - M.: Tsentrpoligraf, 2009. The admired and respected 50-year-old linguist with a PHD in Celtic Studies who speaks thirteen languages became the center of a media storm when his extracurricular activities at the graveyards in and around Nizhny Novgorod, Russia proved to be far more than an interest in local history. Anatoly Moskvin was a journalist, a historian, and was known as a “genius” in his neighborhood because he could fluently speak 13 different languages. [11][12][13] He kept a personal library of over 60,000 books and documents,[12] as well as a large doll collection. At first the police only wanted to talk to Anatoly and get some advice about a case they were working on, but when they looked around his apartment, they got suspicious. [10][11] He alleged that the participants forced him to kiss the dead girl's face, writing that "an adult pushed my face down to the waxy forehead of the girl in an embroidered cap, and there was nothing I could do but kiss her as ordered. In the autumn of 2011, the authorities asked Moskvin, who was not considered a suspect, for assistance to solve the mystery. [20] In 2014 a spokesman 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. Moskvin A. Yu. Anatoly Moskvin was known as the ultimate expert on cemeteries in his city of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Something like this picture was presented to the man in the street until the fall of 2011 all this order was violated by law enforcement officials. [1], A psychiatric evaluation determined that Moskvin had suffered a form of paranoid schizophrenia. [1][8], Moskvin was aware that he was committing a crime, but felt the dead children were "calling out" to be rescued and believed that rescuing the children was more important than obeying the law. - M.: Tsentrpoligraf, 2014. [13], After exhuming the corpses, Moskvin researched mummification theories and techniques in an attempt to preserve the bodies. [14][15], A former lecturer in Celtic studies at Nizhny Novgorod Linguistic University,[12] Moskvin previously worked at the Institute of Foreign Languages.