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The Wolf of Moscow: Bolshevik Russia's First Serial Killer
Paperback
Publisher: Silverback Books
Published: Dec 5 2025
Pages: 430
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.96 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Wolf of Moscow: Bolshevik Russia's First Serial Killer
Moscow, 1921. As Lenin's New Economic Policy creates new opportunities, men begin disappearing from the horse markets-traders, farmers, merchants carrying cash for legitimate purchases. British correspondent Thomas Ashford notices the pattern, but Soviet authorities dismiss reports: missing men are assumed to have abandoned families or fled debts.
Inspector Kashin identifies a suspect in April 1921 and is ordered to stop investigating. Political considerations override public safety. The NEP's legitimacy cannot be questioned. Serial murder doesn't fit the propaganda narrative of socialist progress.
Eighteen months and at least thirty-three victims later, the GPU finally arrests Vasili Komaroff, a horse trader who lured buyers to his stable at 26 Shabolovka Street, murdered them with hammer and knife, and disposed of bodies in the Moscow River. The trial is swift. The execution swifter. Soviet justice claims triumph.
But Ashford has documented the truth: the delayed investigation, the destroyed witnesses, the conspiracy of silence, the gap between propaganda and reality. Forced to leave Russia, he publishes the complete account from exile, ending with a warning from Moscow-new bodies are appearing. New patterns emerging. New predators operating.
The wolf may be dead, but the forest still breeds predators.
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