Moscow.
Russian historian Oleg Sokolov, who killed and dismembered his girlfriend in 2019, was sentenced this Friday to 12.5 years in prison in a high-security prison after a media trial that lasted for more of a year.
According to the Oktiabrski court ruling in St. Petersburg, the Russian historian he will spend in prison “twelve years for murder and another 1.6 years for illegal possession of weapons.”
Sokolov, former professor of St. Petersburg State University, Has been in pretrial detention since November last year, accused of murdering his romantic partner and former student, Anastasia Yeshchenko, 24 years old.
The Exdocent, known for his historical recreations of the Napoleonic era, previously acknowledged his guilt and during his last words before the court said he had committed the crime in a state of “alienation.”
the Prosecutor’s Office asked for the historian 15 years in prison.
The crime, which shocked the Russian society, Took place in November 2019, when Sokolov was arrested in a drunken state on the Moika River with a backpack floating beside him, inside were pieces of a human body and a pistol.
According to researchers, the historian he fell into the water when he tried to get rid of the remains of the body of his partner, whom he had killed shortly before in the common house.
Sokolov shot his girlfriend three times during a fight and then quartered her, according to the crime version confirmed by the Russian justice.
In Russia there is still no specific law on gender violence, but it is estimated that about 14,000 women die each year in this country at the hands of their partners.