A Russian teacher who beheaded his beloved student – and then planned to commit suicide like Napoleon Bonaparte – was sentenced to more than 12 years in a palette, according to a report.
Oleg Sokolov, 64, a former history professor at St. Petersburg State University, was found buried in a river in November 2019 with a bag containing the severed arms of 24-year-old Anastasia Yeshchenko. years.
The severed head was found in an IKEA bag in her luxury apartment, while her torso and legs were recovered from the Moika River in St. Petersburg, East2West News reported.
Sokolov – Napoleon’s most famous reconstitutor in Russia – remained impassive while wearing a mask, as a St. Petersburg court sentenced him to 12 and a half years in a penal colony on Friday.
“He shot her, then tried to strangle her, but she continued to show signs of life, so he shot her again,” Judge Yulia Maksimenko said, adding that he shot her four times. rifle before dismembering it with a knife and saw.
One of the bullets, which was fired from a Soviet-era TOZ-17, styled as a 19th-century cavalry rifle, passed through the woman’s right eye, East2West reported.
After killing her and hiding her body parts under a bed, Sokolov spent time with friends.
“His friends visited him, they all drank brandy,” the court heard.
Once away, he beheaded and dismembered the body in his bathroom.
Sokolov was caught when he was found in the frozen river trying to dispose of his boyfriend’s arms, which he had cut at her shoulders.
The embarrassed academician pleaded guilty to her murder, but told the court that he was not premeditated and that the doctoral student led him to “a state of complete madness” by making offensive remarks about his children from another relationship.
It turned out that he had suspected that Yushchenko was cheating on him – and he became violent when he told him that he intended to go to a friend’s birthday party.
She had told him that her freedom must be respected, but the judge said Sokolov was extremely jealous in the face of the 40-year difference.
Sokolov – who gave lectures at the Sorbonne and received the Order of Merit of the Legion of Honor from France – and Yeschenko both participated in Napoleonic recreations in historical royalties.
Earlier, Sokolov told the court: “I want to express deep and complete remorse for what I did. Not only do I think I need to be punished, I want to be punished to atone for the crime I committed. “