She's a doll. **graphic warning images**
So it is not often I come across something new to me, or someone that slipped under my obsession with the truly gross human nature of people. I was searching for one of my own posts on Annabelle (classic!!) and couldn't remember what year or headline I used, so in my Google Docs I was searching Dolls. I've done LOTS on dolls, I have more to come on the creepy little figures but this recent one really got me in the gut. It's from 2011.
Have you heard of the Russian Dolls? Well, hold on cause this one is disturbing.
Anatoly Moskvin: He was a certified genius, He spoke 13 languages, traveled extensively, taught at the college level, and was a journalist in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia’s fifth-largest city. Moskvin was also a self-proclaimed expert on cemeteries, and dubbed himself a “necropolyst.” He posted a documentary series of his travels and discoveries entitled “Great Walks Around Cemeteries” and “What the Dead Said.” These continue to be published today, in a weekly newspaper.
In 2009, was when authorities began to discover the graves in local cemeteries to be desecrated, sometimes completely dug up.A Russian Interior Ministry spokesman told CNN that initially, “Our leading theory was that it was done by some extremist organizations. We decided to beef up our police units and set up … groups composed of our most experienced detectives who specialize in extremist crimes.”But for nearly two years, the Interior Ministry’s leads went nowhere. Graves continued to be desecrated and no one knew why.Then, a break in the investigation happened in 2011. Authorities heard reports of graves being desecrated again locally. Investigators were led to a cemetery where someone was painting over the pictures of the dead’s gravestones but not damaging anything else. Almost lovingly creating art.
This was where Anatoly Moskvin was finally caught.
The 45-year-old lived with his parents in a small apartment. He was reportedly lonely and something of a pack rat. Inside authorities found life-sized, doll-like figures throughout his apartment. He created his dolls and cherished each and every one of them. One colleague, prior to his arrest and confessions, called his work “priceless". All the lifesize figures resembled antique dolls. They wore fine and varied clothing. Some wore knee-high boots, others had makeup on. Over their faces, Moskvin had carefully covered in fabric. He had also hidden and covered their hands in fabric.
Except these were not dolls — they were the mummified corpses of human girls.
Anatoly Moskvin admitted that he would stuff the decayed corpses with rags. Then he would wrap nylon tights around their faces, preserving their features but making them doll-like at the same time. He would often fashion or insert buttons or toy eyes into the girls’ eye sockets so that they could “watch cartoons” with him.
During investigations, When police moved one of the bodies, it played music, as if on cue. Inside the chests of many of the dolls, Moskvin had embedded music boxes
In all, authorities discovered 29 life-size dolls in Anatoly Moskvin’s apartment. They ranged in age from three to 25. One corpse he kept for nearly nine years.
In court, Moskvin confessed to 44 counts of abusing graves and dead bodies. He said to the victim’s parents, “You abandoned your girls, I brought them home and warmed them up.”
Well, that's a wrap for me.
Had just about enough internet for the day. I will however post a YouTube link and warn you, that the images can be graphic.
The video is of actual footage of his apartment post-arrest, with footage of his dolls. As are the images attached here. These are what he considered his works.
footage starts @1:24 https://youtu.be/ep8wcPP0kp4?si=HMJ2TwCuYmAXyWD6
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