A small apartment in Nizhny Novgorod, all rooms in which are literally littered with books. And here there are about three dozen growth dolls dressed up both in modern clothes and in one that fully complies with Russian folk traditions. Anatoly Yurievich Moskvin lives here with his parents. The man is 45 years old, he is not married, he studies the traditions and culture of the Celts, his many students come to his house to study foreign languages. Something like this picture was presented to the eyes of the layman until the moment when in autumn 2011 this whole order was violated by representatives of law enforcement agencies. The unexpected visit of the investigators changed almost everything: Anatoly Moskvin from Nizhny Novgorod moved to Moscow, to a psychiatric clinic. And his works, on which he worked for more than one year, were destroyed. We bring to your attention the history of the most famous puppeteer.
Moskvin's biography: family, childhood, study
He was born in early September 1966. His hometown is Gorky, his parents are Yuri and Elvira Moskviny. Anatoly's father is a candidate of technical sciences, his mother is an engineer by training. Little Tolya was a timid and shy boy, at school he was ridiculed by classmates, often simple insulting jokes turned into frank mockery.
Immediately after graduation, Anatoly Moskvin entered the Gorky Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages. He successfully graduated from it, for some time even taught philology and foreign languages at the institute, and lectured at the local library.
Education at MSU
After that, the young man decided to continue his studies and entered the graduate school of the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University. Here, at the department of Germanic and Celtic philology, he wrote a dissertation. By the way, the professor of the department subsequently noted: the dissertation was only written, but was not defended.
Anatoly learned 13 languages, and the talent of the polyglot showed up in his school years. Moskvin spent a lot of time tutoring, writing term papers and dissertations for sale.
Professional achievements
Anatoly Moskvin is the author of several dictionaries that were published between 1998 and 2000. In addition, he translated the book History of the Swastika and wrote an annex to it called The Cross without the Crucifixion. In December 1997, Moskvin began to publish an electronic almanac, which he called "Celtic Dawn." For many years he dealt with issues of the Nizhny Novgorod regional studies, in July 2005 he began to publish another electronic almanac called "Memory of the Earth."
From 2006 to 2010, Moskvin worked as a freelance correspondent for the newspaper Nizhny Novgorod Worker. This publication published his essays twice a month - both historical and local history. In the "Nizhny Novgorod Worker" Anatoly Moskvin was appreciated and called the author of brilliant publications.
Interest in cemeteries
It should be said that for two years, from 2008 to 2010, Anatoly Yuryevich researched local cemeteries and wrote articles about their history. His work had a huge resonance: it is not surprising that he was constantly invited to various organizations to give interesting lectures. Anatoly helped people discover the graves of his relatives, helped find the burial place of the victim of the Nizhny Novgorod pedophile.
Later, the necropolitan Anatoly Yurievich Moskvin will tell: he wanted to publish a book that he planned to call the "Nizhny Novgorod Necropolis." He also shared very unusual details of his life. For example, Moskvin said that throughout his life he visited 750 cemeteries, copied about 900 epitaphs from tombstones and compiled a huge file cabinet that included 10 thousand graves.
In 2010, Anatoly Yuryevich became the founder of the newspaper "Obituary NN". The chief editor of the publication was lawyer A. Yesin. Of course, Moskvin himself acted as the main author: he published dozens of cemetery essays, without receiving any fees at all.
Tomb raider or brilliant scientist?
Few could have imagined that Moskvin was not interested in the cemetery as a scientist. Therefore, when someone began to regularly dig out the graves in which the girls were buried, Anatoly Moskvin did not immediately fall under suspicion. The story is silent about how law enforcement officers managed to get on the trail of the mysterious robber, but the search that the investigators conducted in the apartment of the Nizhny Novgorod scientist horrified the operatives and the entire population of the city.
Terrible find
In the apartment where Moskvin lived with his parents, 26 strange dolls of human height were discovered. Perhaps even the most perverted mind could not have imagined that these are actually human corpses! Only unbearable "aromas" testified to this - the smells of rotting bodies and balsamic solutions. Investigators were able to find out what the bodies of the girls Moskvin removed from fresh graves. In addition, in his apartment found ancient instructions for the manufacture of mummies and numerous maps of cemeteries.
Puppeteer's creations
Anatoly Moskvin approached the creation of his masterpieces creatively. He improved most of the dolls by adding mechanisms from musical toys or caskets to them. It was enough to touch such a mummy as she began to sing or make sounds of music. Moskvin admitted: he dug up only those bodies on which there were no external injuries. That is, previously he found out for what reason this or that girl died. When the toy became uninteresting to him, he returned back to the churchyard. By his own admission, more than 80 human bodies passed through his hands.
Criminal case
Of course, a psychiatric examination was carried out. The result did not surprise anyone: Moskvin was declared insane. The man was sent for compulsory treatment, diagnosing him with schizophrenia. The tenure of Anatoly Yurievich in the clinic was repeatedly extended.
The last time the Leningrad District Court extended the treatment of a puppeteer when he was 51 years old. Today it is not known whether Moskvin will ever be able to go free. One thing is certain: in real life, sometimes terrible stories happen that you don’t even have to watch horror films.