Oleg Sokolov Sentenced In Anastasia Yeshchenko's Murder
Sign Up for Free to View 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 dispo...