According to a report, a Russian professor who beheaded his student turned lover and then planned to commit suicide as Napoleon Bonaparte was sentenced to more than twelve years.
Oleg Sokolov, 64, a former history professor at St. Petersburg State University, was found embedded in a river in November 2019 with a bag containing the severed arms of 24-year-old Anastasia Yeshchenko.
Her severed head was discovered 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, the well-known Napoleon of Russia, sat impassively while wearing a mask while a St. Petersburg court sentenced him on Friday to 12 and a half years in a penal colony.
“He shot her and then tried to strangle her, but she continued to show signs of life, so he shot her again,” said Judge Yulia Maksimenko, who added that she was shot four times with a rifle before disassembling it with a knife and watch.
One of the bullets, which was fired from a Soviet-era TOZ-17, stylized 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 partyed with friends.
“His friends visited him, they all drank cognac,” the court learned.
Once they left, he beheaded and dismembered the corpse in his bathroom.
Sokolov was caught when he was found in the icy river trying to dispose of his lover’s arms, which he had cut off his shoulders.
The disgraced academic pleaded guilty to her murder, but told the court she had not been premeditated and that the doctoral student had led her to “a state of complete madness” by making insulting comments about her children from another relationship. .
It turned out that he suspected Yeshchenko of cheating on him and became violent when he told him he planned to go to a friend’s birthday party.
She had told him her freedom should be respected, but the judge said Sokolov had fierce jealousy amid the 40-year age difference.
Sokolov, who had lectured at the Sorbonne and who France had received the Order of Merit of the Legion of Honor, and Iichenko, had participated in the Napoleonic recreations in the midst of historical history.
Earlier, Sokolov told the court: “I want to express a deep and complete remorse for what I have done. Not only do I think I should be punished, I want to be punished for atoning for the crime I committed. ”