A Russian professor who beheaded his student lover – and then planned to commit suicide as Napoleon Bonaparte – has been sentenced to more than twelve years, according to a report.
Oleg Sokolov (64), a former professor of history at the State University of St. Petersburg, was found in a river in November 2019 with a bag with the severed arms of 24-year-old Anastasia Yeshchenko.
Her severed head was discovered in an IKEA suitcase in his luxury apartment, while her torso and legs were recovered from the Moika River in St. Petersburg, reports East2West News.
Sokolov – Russia’s most famous version of Napoleon – sat unrestrained while wearing a mask when a court in St. Petersburg sentenced him to 12 years in a penal colony on Friday.
“He shot her and then tried to strangle her, but she still showed signs of life, so he shot her again,” Judge Yulia Maksimenko said, adding that he shot her four times with a rifle before shooting her with chopped a knife and saw.
One of the bullets fired from a Soviet-era TOZ-17, styled as a 19th-century shotgun, went through the woman’s right eye, East2West reported.
After killing her and hiding her body parts under a bed, Sokolov partyed with friends.
“His friends visited him, and everyone drank cognac,” the court heard.
After they left, he decapitated and dismembered the body in his bathroom.
Sokolov was caught when he was found in the icy river and tried to remove the arms of his lover, which he had cut off at her shoulders.
The disgraced academic pleaded guilty to her murder, but told the court that it was not planned in advance and that the PhD student “drove him to a” state of complete insanity “by insulting remarks about his children. to make another relationship.
It turned out that he suspected Yeshchenko of cheating on him – and became violent when she told him she was going to a friend’s birthday party.
She told him her freedom should be respected, but the judge said Sokolov was jealous amid the age of 40.
Sokolov – who taught at the Sorbonne and was awarded the Legion of Honor Order of Merit by France – and Yeschenko both participated in the re-enactment of Napoleon in full historical regalia.
Sokolov said earlier in court: “I want to express my deep and complete remorse for what I have done. I do not just believe that I should be punished; I also want to be punished for reconciling my crime. ”