Russian Doll Man
How did a scholar mummify children?
4.4 (28)
47 mins
Explore the shocking 2011 discovery inside the apartment of Russian historian and linguist Anatoly Moskvin. Discover how a brilliant scholar exhumed young girls from local cemeteries to transform their remains into mummified dolls. Learn about the disturbing psychological delusions that led Moskvin to create a bizarre substitute family out of the dead.
Ep 1:
The Genius Behind the Dolls
Meet Anatoly Moskvin: a brilliant polyglot and historian whose quiet life masked a childhood shattered by trauma and a haunting funeral that changed everything at age twelve.
Ep 2:
From Loneliness to the Graveyard
A gifted academic's occult obsessions deepen through university and a dream cemetery-documentation project, until a devastating heartbreak drives him to dig up his very first body.
Ep 3:
A Dollhouse of the Dead
Inside Moskvin's apartment, a decade-long secret takes horrifying shape—mummified 'dolls' hidden in plain sight—until a routine investigation stumbles onto something no officer could have imagined.
Ep 4:
The Lord of the Mummies Speaks
Moskvin confesses everything, calling himself a kind protector of the dead, while grieving families and courts wrestle with whether he's a monster, a madman, or tragically both.
Discussions (5)
Vaughn
Level 5 · 1 week agoHe actually did speak 13 languages. Moskvin published works in Celtic studies and was verified by colleagues at Nizhny Novgorod State University as fluent in multiple European and Asian languages. That part checks out.
Dudley
Level 5 · 1 week agoHe wasnt a genius just a sick man
Wesley
Level 9 · 1 week agocalling him a genius feels wrong when his 'brilliance' was just obsession with one dark thing for decades
