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Saint Petersburg (Russia) – The indictment looks like something out of a Netflix thriller, but the case that was heard in a St. Petersburg court on Friday is a bloody reality!
Russian history professor Oleg Sokolov (64) has been sentenced to twelve and a half years in a camp for the murder of his girlfriend († 24) and illegal possession of weapons. This was decided by a St. Petersburg court on Friday.
The victim Anastasia Yeshchenko († 24) was a former student of Sokolov
Sokolov was arrested while intoxicated in November 2019 while attempting to sink body parts into the Moika River in St. Petersburg.
Police removed the renowned ice water historian and discovered a woman’s severed arms in her backpack. Officers found a bloodstained saw and the decapitated body of his former student Anastasia Yeschtschenko in Sokolov’s apartment. Sokolov had lived with the 24-year-old and wrote several books.
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▶ ︎ Sokolow is the author of several works on Napoleon Bonaparte. He was featured as a history expert in various documentaries, also taught at the renowned French Sorbonne and is a member of the French Legion of Honor.
The historian was also a member of the French Institute of Social Sciences, Economics and Politics (Issep), which was founded by Marion Maréchal, niece of the French right-wing populist Marine Le Pen. The institute said Saturday that Sokolov had been removed from his position on the scientific committee due to the bloody act.
The students described the scholar, who liked to show himself to his lover in historical costumes, as a talented lecturer, but also as a “monster” and eccentric.
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