Evil body snatcher dug up my little girl's murdered body, mummified her corpse... then taunted me for ten years

A grieving mother has told how her murdered daughter's corpse was dug up from her grave and mummified by a 'mad genius' Russian historian - who then kept her in his house for nine years.

Anatoly Moskvin, 47, ransacked graveyards and kept dozens of corpses of young girls in his bedroom in the flat where he lived with his mother and father.

He dressed the dead children in stockings, girls' clothing and knee length boots to make them look like dolls, even applying lipstick and make-up to their faces, and putting music boxes inside their rib cages.

The highly educated bodysnatcher marked the birthday of each of his dead victims in his in bedroom in Nizhny Novgorod.

A judge has decreed that schizophrenic Moskvin - too ill to face trial for his crimes - should remain in a secure psychiatric hospital for the foreseeable future.

Following his arrest, the grave-robber, who speaks 13 languages and was described in court as a genius, told the parents of his victim accusingly: 'You abandoned your girls in the cold - and I brought them home and warmed them up.'

But for Natalia Chardymova, 42, each new macabre report about Moskvin - arrested in 2011 - is like a hammer blow because her own daughter Olga was among 29 he secretly dug up, and dressed as a doll, and kept at home.

Olga had been horrifically murdered, aged ten, the first time she was allowed to walk alone from the family flat to her granny's apartment in the next block after her parents went to work.

'I'm ten already. I can go myself,' she pleaded.Her mother relented and she went out with her favourite green bag and blue umbrella, never to be seen alive again.

Unseen, a drug addict waiting in the lobby of her block had forced her back up to the top floor, and robbed her of her earrings, and because she tried to escape, cracked her over the head with a metal bar.'We buried her on 2 October 2002. I could never imagine that almost exactly ten years later, on the 5 October 2012 I would open her grave with the police, and find her remains had vanished. Her coffin was empty, with a hole at the top from which he had pulled the remains.

A torment then began that was to last for nine long years.

The same month they found a note signed with two letters - D.A. - standing for Dobry Angel or Kind Angel - the chilling way Moskwin described himself.

'We shivered with fear each time we went to the grave, not knowing what to expect,' she said.

'These sick anonymous notes were addressed to my daughter, calling her 'Little Lady'. He congratulated her on all the public holidays. He remembered about 1 September each year (the first day of the school year in Russia) and the last school bell in May.

'He counted carefully which school grade she was about the enter, as if she was still alive. For example 'happy last month of your 6th year at school''I still find it hard to grasp the scale of his sickening work but for nine years he was living with my mummified daughter in his bedroom. I had her for ten years, he had her for nine.'

His mother Elvira, 76, told police: 'We saw these dolls but we did not suspect there were dead bodies inside. We thought it was his hobby to make such big dolls and did not see anything wrong with it.'

.She and his father Yury, 77, went to their country house each summer, leaving him alone in the flat, which is when Moskvin prowled graveyards stealing new corpses and dressing them up.

In interviews with police and in court, historian Moskvin, described as a 'genius' and an authority on Russian cemeteries - gave various explanations of his actions.

'I was waiting for science to find ways for these girls to live again,' he told them.

'I wanted to be an expert in making mummies... I wanted to communicate with these girls.'

He told how he carefully selected which girl to take. 'I lay on the grave and tried to get in touch with her. I listened to what she said. Often they asked me to take them out for a walk.'

Police say he wasn't motivated by any twisted sexual desires with these children. 'He loathed sex and thought it was disgusting,' said one officer.

He admitted the crime of digging up the graves, but the court found he was mentally ill.

While he's lucid most of the time, when talking about 'his girls' he becomes obsessed, said the psychiatrists.

Reports claimed Moskvin had been raped as a child. He also told how he was forced as a boy to kiss the face of a dead 11 year old girl at her funeral.