Legal professionals of 63-year-old Oleg Sokolov, an affiliate professor of the College of Historical past of the St. Petersburg State College, who was accused of murdering and dismembering his mistress, 24-year-old college graduate Anastasia Yeshchenko, intend to persuade the court docket that he had shot the younger girl being in a state of robust emotional stress brought on by jealousy.CCTV footage was launched exhibiting historian Oleg Sokolov, a professor of St. Petersburg State College, leaving his dwelling and carrying a big light-colored bag containing the legs of St. Petersburg State College graduate scholar Anastasia Yeshchenko. Having crossed the road, he approached the fence of the Moika River embankment, the place Sokolov put the bag on the bottom at his ft ready for a random individual to move by. After ensuring that there was nobody else round, the professor grabs the bag and throws it into the water. Then he shortly steps again into his condo constructing and disappears from sight.In one other video, Sokolov throws two extra luggage into the Moika River. He’s seen standing by the river for a while, staring into the water, after which leaves. It may be seen that the person is drunk: he had most likely bought drunk by that point, as a result of, as he later mentioned, he needed to drink alcohol to subdue nausea as he was dismembering the sufferer. Throughout the third time, when throwing a backpack with the girl’s arms inside into the river, Sokolov slipped and fell into the river. He was rescued the next morning and despatched to hospital, whereas the content material of the recovered backpack turned the rationale for investigation.The sufferer’s head was present in Sokolov’s condo. Based on investigators, Sokolov shot Anastasia Yeshchenko lifeless on November 7, allegedly, throughout a quarrel. A day later, he dismembered her physique and determined to get rid of the luggage by throwing them into the river. It’s worthy of word that Oleg Sokolov’s first spouse died below obscure circumstances.It was additionally reported that the historian was planning to commit suicide in public on the Peter and Paul Fortress earlier than vacationers’ eyes. He was planning to put on Napoleon’s costume for the act.Based on sources in regulation enforcement, the sufferer of the historian, Anastasia Yeshchenko, arrived in St. Petersburg from the Krasnodar area and graduated from the St. Petersburg State College three years in the past.The couple had been residing collectively since 2015. The reason for their battle stays unknown. Based on preliminary data, Anastasia was hostile to Sokolov’s daughters from his first marriage.Oleg Sokolov, candidate of historic sciences was born in 1956 in Leningrad. He’s an assistant professor on the Division of Trendy and Modern Historical past of St. Petersburg State College. Sokolov authored a sequence of monographs on the actions of the armed forces of France in the course of the instances of Napoleon. In 2003, French President Jacques Chirac signed a decree awarding Sokolov with the Legion of Honor for his contribution to the research and popularization of the historical past of France and its military.
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