Moskvin, Anatoly Yuryevich

He graduated from the graduate school of the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov , where he wrote a dissertation at the Department of Germanic and Celtic Philology, under the scientific supervision of I. A. Ershova . He taught celtology at the Nizhny Novgorod Linguistic University ^[3] .

In 2006 ^[4] —2010 he worked as a freelance correspondent for the newspaper Nizhny Novgorod Worker , where his historical and local history essays were published twice a month ^[4] , and from 2008 ^[5] to 2010 ^[5] , which had a significant resonance articles ^[5] on the history of local cemeteries - necropolism . He planned to release the book "Nizhny Novgorod Necropolis" ^[4] . As Anatoly Moskvin himself said in an interview in 2007, over the previous 20 years he studied more than 750 cemeteries in the Nizhny Novgorod region and other regions of Russia ^{[6] [7]} . He was the main author of the newspaper “Obituary NN”, published several dozen cemetery essays there, but did not receive a fee ^[3] . In 2011, he published articles on local history in the newspaper Nizhny Novgorod News . He regularly gave lectures ^{[4] [8]} , and assisted in the search for the graves of relatives ^[8] .

The author of several dictionaries, as well as the translator of the book “History of the Swastika ” and the author of the appendix to it “The Cross without the Crucified” (2007). Publisher of the electronic almanac "Celtic Dawn" (since December 1997). In recent years, he dealt with issues of Nizhny Novgorod regional studies, published an electronic anthology "Memory of the Earth" (since July 2005). He speaks 13 languages ^{[9] [6]} , has a personal library of 60 thousand volumes ^[3] .

According to Moskvin’s stories, as a student, he was a member of the Luciferian society (whom he distinguished from the Satanists ), performed rituals with dead animals, took credit for black magic , vowed celibacy and abstinence from alcohol and smoking, and rejected Christianity ^[3] . He considered himself a pagan ^[8] . According to G. Shcheglov, editor of the publishing house in which Moskvin was printing books, he wanted to adopt a girl ^[3] .

On November 2, 2011, during a search of the apartment where Moskvin lived with his parents, and in his garage, 26 mummified bodies were discovered - life-size puppets made from the remains of girls excavated in cemeteries ^{[4] [10] [8]} . According to the investigation, the bodies were removed from the graves in the cemeteries "New Striginsky", "Novo-Sormovsky" , "Maryina Roshcha" , "Rumyantsevo", "Nizhny Novgorod" of the Kstovsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region, as well as the Kuzminsky cemetery in Moscow and Dolgoprudnensky South cemetery ^[10] . Moskvin was charged under Article 244 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Abuse of the graves and bodies of the dead” ^[10] .

In May 2012, a trial was held ^[11] . Moskvin was declared insane; the court released him from criminal liability by prescribing compulsory psychiatric treatment . The prosecution was satisfied with the decision and refused to appeal the verdict ^{[12] [13]} . Moskvin was sent to a psychiatric hospital for six months, but every six months the court extends the term for another six months ^{[14] [15] [16]} . Lawyer V. Volkova, known for the defense of the Pussy Riot group, took up the Moskvin case ^[17] . In the summer of 2015, Moskvin was sent for a second psychiatric examination ^[17] and on July 30, compulsory treatment was extended ^[18] .

V. Stravinskas, the head of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Nizhny Novgorod Region, called the Moskvin case an exceptional case that has no analogues in modern forensics ^[19] . Colleagues spoke of the defendant as a kind, ingenious ^[3] and punctual specialist researcher; strangenesses were referred to as “quirks of the intellectual” ^{[4] [20]} .

Dictionaries

• English-Russian and Russian-English dictionary of the most common words and phrases. About 45,000 words. / comp. A. Yu. Moskvin. - M .: Centerpolygraph , 2009 .-- 719 p. - (Large dictionaries). - 5,000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-9524-4088-3 .
• School English-Russian and Russian-English Dictionary / comp. A. Yu. Moskvin. - M .: Centerpolygraph, 2014 .-- 640 p. - (School dictionaries). - 2500 copies. - ISBN 978-5-227-05185-1 .
• A large dictionary of foreign words. Over 25,000 words / comp. A. Yu. Moskvin. - 7th ed., Rev. and additional .. - M .: Tsentrpoligraf, 2008. - 688 p. - (Large dictionaries). - 6000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-9524-3984-9 .
• School phraseological dictionary of the Russian language / comp. A. Yu. Moskvin. - M .: Centerpolygraph, 2012, 2013 .-- 639 p. - (School dictionaries). - 2500 copies. - ISBN 978-5-227-04592-8 .

Transfer

• Wilson T. History of the swastika from ancient times to the present = The Swastika: The Earliest Known symbol and Its Migrations / per. from English: A. Yu. Moskvin; [written by curator of the Department of Prehistoric Anthropology, National Museum of the United States , ed. on Sat Smithsonian Institution, 1896]. - N. Novgorod : Books, 2008 .-- 528 p. - 1000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-94706-053-9 .

Monograph

• Moskvin A. Yu. Cross without crucified // History of the swastika from ancient times to the present day. - N. Novgorod : Publishing House "Books", 2008. - S. 355-526. - 528 s. - 1000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-94706-053-9 .

• The case of the necropolitan Moskvin postponed until June 26 // Crime Chronicle. - N. Novgorod , 06/18/2015. - includes a video interview with Moskvin and his transcript.
• Articles of the “Cemetery cycle” by Moskvin on the website of journalist T. Kokina-Slavina.