In November 2011, in Nizhny Novgorod, police uncovered one of the most disturbing cases in recent years. Anatoly Moskvin, a 45-year-old historian, was arrested following an investigation into grave desecration.
When officers searched the apartment he shared with his parents, they found dozens of life-sized figures dressed like dolls. The unsettling truth came after: they weren’t objects, but the mummified bodies of girls and young women he had exhumed from cemeteries and carefully dressed.
For years, he lived among them without raising suspicion, until the truth came to light, revealing an obsession as silent as it was macabre.
