The Leninsky District Court has extended treatment for 51-year-old "puppeteer" Anatoly Moskvin. In 2011, 26 mummies were found in his apartment, made from the remains of girls dug up in cemeteries.
Anatoly Moskvin. Photo: RIA Novosti / Oleg Gold.
Anatoly Moskvin completed his postgraduate studies at Moscow State University and taught celtology at the Nizhny Novgorod Linguistic University. He was a professional necropolis and wrote several rather significant scientific articles on the history of cemeteries.
No one guessed that Moskvin was interested in cemeteries not only from a scientific point of view. And when someone began to regularly dig up the graves of girls, the prominent scientist did not immediately come under suspicion. How the investigators got on the trail of the "tomb robber" - history is silent, but the search in Anatoly Moskvin's apartment horrified even experienced operatives …
It was a terrible find: 26 strange dolls in human height. The most perverted mind could not assume that these are real human corpses. And only the unbearable smell of balsamic solutions and decomposition of bodies said that this was a "bad apartment" … Moskvin removed bodies from fresh graves. There were also found ancient instructions for making mummies and maps of local cemeteries.
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The mad scientist approached the creation of dolls creatively: he "improved" most of them with musical mechanisms from toys or boxes. When touched, such mummies began to sing or make other sounds.
Moskvin dug up only bodies without any external damage. That is, he first found out from what this or that girl died … The psychopath returned the bored "toys" back to the graves. By his own admission, over 80 bodies have passed through his hands all the time …
A psychiatric examination found Moskvin insane, and he was sent for compulsory treatment with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. The period of his stay at the clinic was repeatedly extended. This time, too, the Leninsky District Court extended the treatment for the 51-year-old "puppeteer". It is not known whether he will ever be released, but one thing is for sure: in real life, sometimes there are terrible stories that are much more terrifying than any horror movie.
Tatiana Kondratieva
