Anatoly Moskvin is a Russian former journalist, college professor, and self-dubbed “necropolyst” with expert knowledge of cemeteries. For years, his hobby of collecting dolls hid a macabre obsession that drew upon his particular interests: digging up the dead and making dolls out of their corpses.
After making his human dolls, he kept them in his home as his companions and lovers. “I kissed her once, then again, then again,” Moskvin wrote about one of his dolls, made from the body of an 11-year-old girl.
Police finally caught Moskvin in 2011, after years of increasing suspicion at the growing number of desecrated graves in his home city of Nizhny Novgorod. When they searched his home, they found 26 life-sized dolls — or rather, mummified corpses — scattered throughout.
absolutely disgusting