The Disturbing Case of The Russian Doll Maker

Anatoly Yurevych Moskvin lived in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, where he was a professor of Celtic history and linguistics. He also collected dolls and was an expert on cemeteries, which only branded him as an eccentric academic, a designation which drew little notice. Because of his knowledge of cemeteries, Moskvin was commissioned to do a "census" of sorts of those buried in the cemeteries of the area. It was a job he took seriously, often camping out in the graveyards while he took notes.

It might seem odd that this man was out in the elements sleeping amongst gravestones and generally lurking about the shadows very much as a ghost or specter might, but this was his job, and no one really thought much of it at the time. This would change in 2011, when it was discovered that there had been a series of desecrated graves around the same cemeteries where Moskvin was known to frequent, although at the time there was no connection made between the two, with the academic questioned but never considered a person of interest. After all, he was a well-respected, highly regarded professor and academic out doing what he was commissioned to do, there was no reason at all to seriously think he was up to anything too nefarious out there in the dark left to his own obsession with death and his own devices. Indeed, the police ended up approaching him to actually help them find out who might be doing it.

Over the course of their conversations, police got steadily more suspicious of Moskvin, as his apartment was not only full of often life-sized, meticulously brightly dressed dolls, but also toys, books, and clothing that were meant for children, even though the man had no kids, and there was an undefinable, yet unpleasant smell permeating the air of the abode. This all seemed rather odd to the authorities, and they proceeded to do a cursory search of the place just to see what was going on. They no doubt were not expecting the show of horrors they would uncover there, and here unfurls one of the most demented cases in Russian history.

I'm sure you can see where this is going, but the details are quite gruesome. Read the story of Moskvin and his dolls at Mysterious Universe. -via Strange Company


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