Moskvin, Anatoly

Anatoly Yuryevich Moskvin is a Russian linguist, philologist, and historian who was arrested in 2011 after the mummified bodies of 26 young girls between the ages of 3 and 13 were discovered in his apartment in Nizhny Novgorod. After exhuming the bodies from local cemeteries, Moskvin mummified the bodies before dressing and posing them around his home. Moskvin would celebrate their birthdays, watched fairytales with them and read books to them. Moskvin's parents, who shared the apartment with him, knew of the "Dolls" but it did not occur to them that they were real girls. They had one mummified girl in their room.