Moscow.
Russian historian Oleg Sokolov, who murdered and dismembered his girlfriend in 2019, was sentenced to 12.5 years in a maximum-security prison this Friday after a media trial that lasted more than a year.
According to the decision of the Oktiábrsky court in St. Petersburg, the Russian historian will spend “twelve years for murder and another 1.6 years for illegal possession of weapons” in prison.
Sokolov, ex-professor of St. Petersburg State University, was in preventive prison since November last year, accused of murdering his sentimental partner and former student, Anastasia Yéschenko, 24 years old.
The former teacher, known for his historical reenactments of the Napoleonic era, previously acknowledged his guilt and said in his last words in court that he had committed the crime in a state of “alienation”.
The Prosecutor’s Office I asked for him historian 15 years in prison.
The crime that the russian society, took place in November 2019, when Sokolov was arrested in a drunken state in the Moika River with a backpack floating next to him, containing pieces of human body and a gun.
According to the researchers historian He fell into the water trying to remove the remains of his partner’s body, which he had recently murdered in the communal house.
Sokolov shot his girlfriend three times during a fight and then cut her to pieces, according to the version of the crime confirmed by the Russian justice.
In Russia, there is still no specific law on gender violence, but it is estimated that around 14,000 women die every year in this country at the hands of their partners.