adminMoskvina dug up the corpses from hundreds of cemeteries and took them to his small, three-bedroom flat in Nizhny Novgorod, according to local media.
He was said to have carried the “dried up” remains of at least 26 women – all aged between 15 and 26 – in plastic bags.
At his apartment, the twisted 45-year-old apparently dressed the bodies and skeletons in stockings and dresses, and even made one look like a teddy bear.
All had died years earlier.
His ghastly obsession was uncovered when Moskvina’s parents visited him in the town around 200 miles east of Moscow after returning from a holiday.
Moskvina, a historian and journalist described by neighbours as a “genius”, sometimes slept in a coffin or on graveyard benches, said BNO News.
Moskvina was said to have visited more than 750 cemeteries in western Russia to indulge his fantasies, although it was not clear when he had begun exhuming graves.
Police arrested Moskvina and later released him, but it was not immediately clear what charges he will face.
He is said to speak 13 languages and have a vast knowledge of history – on which he used to lecture at a local museum.
A Russian ministry spokesman Valery Gribakin yesterday said that the suspect from the Volga River city of Nizhny Novgorod dug up the bodies at several cemeteries in the region.
The man, whose identity was withheld by police but exposed by local media, dressed them in clothes dug up from the graves.
He said the arrest followed a police probe into the desecration of graves in the region, which was initially blamed on extremist groups.
Nizhny Novgorod is located about 400 kilometres east of Moscow.
Russian media reports quoted police as saying that the man only had selected the remains of young women for his grisly collection.
Moskvin is said to have dug up the corpses from hundreds of cemeteries and took them to his small, three-bedroom flat in Nizhny Novgorod, according to local media. – Daily Mail.
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