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A Russian academic known for his war reenactments was sentenced last week for murdering his younger lover, who a judge said he shot and dismembered before disposing of her body parts in a St. Petersburg river.
Oleg Sokolov, 64, an established academic in the military history of France and a prolific re-enactors of Napoleonic wars, confessed last year to the murder of his former student, Anastasia Yeshchenko. The now-former Saint Petersburg State University lecturer was arrested in November 2019 after he drunkenly stumbled into the Moika River while attempting to dispose of Yeshchenko’s severed arms, France 24 reported at the time.
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SAINT PETERSBURG (AFP): A Russian historian and Napoleon enthusiast was sentenced to 12-and-a-half-years in prison for murdering and dismembering his young lover last year.
The Saint Petersburg trial, which spurred activists to voice growing anger over domestic abuse in Russia, began in June after delays due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Oleg Sokolov (pic), 64, had admitted murdering 24-year-old Anastasia Yeshchenko but said he committed the crime against his former student and lover in the heat of the moment during an argument.
He was arrested in November last year after he was found drunk and carrying a backpack containing a woman s arms.
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12/25/20 AT 9:44 PM
A Russian historian and Napoleon enthusiast was sentenced to 12-and-a-half-years in prison for murdering and dismembering his young lover last year.
The Saint Petersburg trial, which spurred activists to voice growing anger over domestic abuse in Russia, began in June after delays due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Oleg Sokolov, 64, had admitted murdering 24-year-old Anastasia Yeshchenko but said he committed the crime against his former student and lover in the heat of the moment during an argument.
Judge Yulia Maximenko sentenced Sokolov on Friday to 12 years and six months in a strict regime penal colony on charges of murder and the illegal possession of firearms.