46time Russian Anatoly Moskvin loved history. Like millions of people out there. He loved the dark aspects of the human race and was intrigued by those conditions that no sane person would want to participate in.
She spoke 13 languages, traveled extensively, taught at university and was a journalist in her 5th largest city. Ρωσίας, Nizhny Novgorod.
People who knew him described him as a closed person and slightly quirky. However, no one had noticed signs of his behavior, the so-called "red flags", which could lead someone to horror.
The 46-year-old was mentally ill with a personal preoccupation that could not be easily perceived by the human mind. Not even the size of the beast…
Anatoly Moskvin had declared himself an "expert" cemeteries. An occupation that ate him almost all year. His obsession with the macabre reached a point where from the age of 13 he published an amateur magazine called "Obituaries".
He himself described the strange ritual which "introduced" him to the obituaries. "A group of people wearing black saw me on the street as a funeral procession passed in front of me. "The men" kidnapped "me and led me to the open coffin of the dead 11-year-old Natasa Petrova". His description is shocking: "I was made to kiss the corpse again and again. The girl's mother got two wedding rings. He passed one to my hand and the other to the dead girl. He married us… ".
His specific experience was the defining point, according to him, that his love for the dead, funerals and cemeteries became an obsession. No one knows if this story is true or if it is the result of a sick mind.
After all, the Russian self-financed publications continued over the years. In fact, he developed them as he made a video explaining how the interest in the dead led him to dig up corpses and mummifies...
The historian walked the cemeteries of the city almost every day, recording details that interested him: Information and data of the dead, decorations of the tombs, routes, everything. "From 2005 to 2007 I had made 752 visits to cemeteries.
The necrophilia of the girl, as he said, opened a new world for him. A world of horror and paranoia. He had kept detailed notes on each case of a dead man that had caught his attention. "I walked up to 20 miles a day."
He even posted a series of mini-documentaries entitled "Great walks in the cemeteries" and "What the dead said". He admitted that he had slept in the coffin of a dead man to better observe the funeral condition.
As it appeared a little later, however, the close contact with the coffin was more than an opportunity for observation.
Since 2009 and for two years the authorities of Nizhny Novgorod have been investigating complaints from locals who reported that the graves of their loved ones had desecrated. In many cases, in fact, of little dead girls, the bodies were missing.
For almost two years the investigations of the special units that had been set up always turned empty-handed. No matter how close they got. A terrorist attack at a nearby city airport, however, and the aftermath grave desecrations led police to track down Moskvin until they finally arrested him on the job.
In 2001 he was caught painting the names of Muslims on graves. When they took him home, they were shocked by the spectacle. Like everyone else.
According to Mosquin's confessions and investigations, he had exhumed 150 bodies of girls between the ages of 3 and 25. The 46-year-old, after exhuming the corpses, transported them to his house, mummified them and dressed them. He wore socks and dresses, while some made them look like teddy bears.
He even "modified" some corpses in such a way that he intervened in their bodies by putting sound machines that ίες played melodies like some normal ones. dolls.
What is really shocking is a video published by Russian media and the Russian himself had turned it shows the house in disarray, while the corridor is full of wedding dresses and bright, colorful clothes.
In the video he is heard saying: "These dolls are made of stuffed human remains. "
Police said Moskvin had a file on his computer with information about the life of each girl he had dug up, as well as how to mummify.
The 46-year-old's parents had visited their son's house earlier in the year of the horrific revelations.
They were faced with the terrifying spectacle but as his mother admitted "we could not imagine it was more than a strange hobby.
In the house of the historian were found 29 mummified corpses from the age of 3 to that of 25 years. He had a corpse in his house for 9 years.
He was described in court as "genius", while he had given the mummified corpses names and made sure to celebrate their birthdays.
The Russian was sentenced to life in prison in a psychiatric clinic. In 2018, however, he was presented with the opportunity to receive psychiatric care at home.
The mother of one of the girls gave the stigma of the other families regarding the prospect of the Russian leaving the psychiatric clinic: "I had it in my life for ten years. He held her for nine minutes. "