"The 'Dollmaker' Moskvin confessed to other crimes in yet another interview."

      October 25, 2025 18:39 Society

      Nizhny Novgorod necropolis specialist Anatoly Moskvin, while staying in the hospital, readily talks about his exploits. His neighbors in the medical facility shared another long interview with the editorial team of the program "By the Way" (16+) and assured that the scientist’s release could pose a danger.

      In the new interview Moskvin calls himself a "cemetery maniac" and says he dug up more than 1,000 graves over 20 years.

      He stated that he previously belonged to an "organization of Nizhny Novgorod satanists"*, which practiced "necromancy," and added that he came to Satanism to learn how to resurrect dead people.

      Allegedly, the group numbered about 40 people, and some of them dug up the bodies of girls and established communication with their spirits. When a spirit stopped communicating, the body was moved to caches — in the forest or in abandoned graves in cemeteries. Thus, with other "necromancers," Moskvin claims he dug up about 400 children in Nizhny Novgorod cemeteries. In addition, he allegedly brought girls from other regions.

      But the main part of the group engaged in other forms of witchcraft — casting curses and the evil eye, the psychiatric hospital patient says.

      Moskvin made even more sensational admissions. For example, that from some girls he removed gold jewelry and asked his mother to pawn it — and with the money earned he bought books.

      At the time of his arrest, according to him, he told the police about his membership in this satanic group, but law enforcement, he claims, persuaded Moskvin to "focus" on his mummies, and he took on the open cases of other group members, and the police did not search for his accomplices. For this, he was allegedly promised good conditions of detention — and they did not deceive him, the scientist emphasized.

      He expressed relief that he is in a psychiatric hospital and not in prison, where he could have been killed. At the same time, he complained that the food there is very poor, and he has gained weight because of a sedentary lifestyle.

      Earlier Telegram channels reported that Moskvin could be discharged as early as November. Allegedly Psychiatric Hospital No. 2, where Moskvin is located, is preparing an appeal to the court to terminate inpatient treatment and transfer the patient to the care of relatives. The court told NIA "Nizhny Novgorod" that no documents have been received yet.

      Recall that Anatoly Moskvin was detained in 2011. More than two dozen bodies of girls were then found in his apartment and garage; he had dug them up from cemeteries, mummified them and turned them into dolls. A criminal case was opened against him under the article on the desecration of the bodies of the deceased, but in 2012 he was declared insane and sent for compulsory treatment. In 2022 the court officially recognized him legally incapable.

      *The Supreme Court recognized the "International Movement of Satanism" as an extremist organization and banned its activities on the territory of Russia.

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