After a 2 year investigation into numerous incidents of grave robbing, authorities in central Russia have arrested a 45-year-old historian. The man, who has been identified by media outlets as Anatoly Moskvin, is charged with desecrating bodies and graves. Authorities say he stole the corpses of 29 women, mummified their remains and dressed them as dolls, sometimes using clothing he had taken from graves. All of the women died between the ages of 15 and 25.
The corpses were found sitting around Moskvin’s small apartment in Nizhny Novgorod. Life News reports Moskvin had stuffed the women’s chests with random objects, including music boxes, soap and toy hearts. "There was something particular in the chest of practically every mummy. When we tried to move one of the bodies, the room unexpectedly filled with music,” an investigator told Life News.
Russian Interior Ministry spokesman Gen. Valery Gribakin said "photographs and plaques from gravestones, doll-making manuals as well as maps of local cemeteries” were found inside Moskvin’s apartment.
Moskvin is described as a well-known historian who wrote several books and was a college professor at one point. He specializes in Celtic history and studied cemeteries across the region.
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