He imagined himself to be Napoleon and asked to call Sir: Associate Professor of St. Petersburg State University planned a spectacular suicide before tourists after dismemberment of a friend

Associate Professor of St. Petersburg State University, candidate of historical sciences, Oleg Sokolov, suspected of killing 24-year-old graduate Anastasia Eshchenko, was going to commit suicide in the image of Napoleon in the eyes of tourists in the Peter and Paul Fortress after getting rid of the girl’s body, 47news reports. According to the portal, the historian admitted to investigators.

According to Sokolov’s idea, an explanation of his act was to have a letter. At home, he planned to leave a testament. The publication writes that Eshchenko was supposedly shot from a small -caliber circumcise on November 7 in Sokolov’s apartment on Moika, 82: a couple lived together. The motive of the murder could be the hostile relations of the girl with the daughters of the historian.

The publication writes that after the reprisal against his lover, Sokolov received guests on Friday, hiding his body. On Saturday, the man decided to get rid of the corpse and bought a saw to dismember it. In the process, he experienced bouts of madhouse and drank. According to 47news, on the night of November 9, he threw a bag with the girl’s feet into a sink, and in the morning they caught Sokolov himself from the river with sawn hands of his victim in a backpack.

According to some data, he tried to drown them, but did not succeed. According to other sources, the teacher was already very drunk and fell into the water. This was reported by a law enforcement source about this by 360 . The teacher lived across the road from the embankment.

Students of St. Petersburg State University told RBC that Sokolov "was always somewhat impulsive", but "there were no alarming incidents," and expressed the hope that information about his involvement in the murder was a stuffing. Another opinion is given by RIA Fan . “He was crazy, considered himself Napoleon’s reincarnation. He was really a tyrant. On the first pair he found a sacrifice and dressed it in armor. He was considered a sick person,” a graduate of the historical faculty told him.

The historian Yevgeny Ponasenkov, who had a conflict with the teacher due to accusations of the latter in plagiarism, also spoke about Sokolov’s love for “moronic reconstruction with changing clothes”. “He said that he was Sir, Napoleon, you see. He is crazy. He called her [killed] Josephine - he calls them all that way,” Ponasenkov said “360”. He noted that he warned the leadership of St. Petersburg State University of Sokolov’s “abnormality” and repeatedly asked him to dismiss him, but no one listened to his arguments.

In 2018, one of the students, with whom Sokolov also had close relations, wrote a statement to him, accusing him of cruel beating. The girl said that the historian tied her to a chair and threatened to disfigure her face with a burning iron, and when trying to escape, he tried to strangle with a leather cord.

“Everyone knew that he was living with Anastasia. The whole university knew that he seduced her, that they were cohabiting. I said that there would be at least the same thing with her as the girl that he beat in a rented apartment. I asked the rector and dean - to fire him so that they would not communicate with this girl - they would not listen to me,” Ponasenkov said.

In addition, last year, a student who asked him a question about plagiarism was beaten at a lecture by Sokolov. The University Ethics Commission only condemned the teacher, saying that the teacher caused damage to the image of the university.

Former Student Sokolov and Sokurkik, Vasily Kunin, wrote on Facebook on Saturday that the teacher "had already guided signs of intolerance and insanity." Kunin mentioned the same episodes - an attack on a student and beating a girl.

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Head of the Cossack Laboratory of the Southern Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor Juf Andrei Venkov, responding to Sokolov, noted that he "made a huge contribution to the development of our Russian science in the period of the Napoleonic Wars," but "he played all his life, he organized the reconstruction and directly burned in them, constantly appeared in the costume of the Napoleon generals He demanded that he be addressed as Napoleon, that is, "Sir" is Your Majesty.

“He behaved like in the war. There were complaints from the Society for the Protection of European Animals, because when he jumped on horses, he torn his lips with a bit. He, like a general on the battlefield, for the failure to fulfill the order, was the execution. He was very tough,” Venkov concluded in a conversation with Portal 78.ru.

According to Dmitry, Goblin, Puchkov, on which Sokolov discussed the Napoleonic wars and argued with Posasenkov, recently Sokolov was on his nerves due to accusations of plagiarism. “He naturally organized herbs, called, they said the nasty things to him and his woman, painted the whole entrance with an abomination, threw all sorts of rubbish, scared,” Fontanka said Puchkov.

The blogger, who previously served in law enforcement agencies, noted that once Sokolov consulted with him about the threats to publish a statement by a girl with whom the historian "came out with a scandal with assault." “And after some time, however, they published a statement - but not a scan of a document, not a photo, but simply a typed text. That is, in my understanding, the persecution was organized on a cyclopean scale, serious money, serious people were involved. Nerves trembled very seriously,” said Puchkov.

Meduza noticed that after the messages about the murder, the name Sokolov disappeared from the list of members of the Scientific Council of the Russian Military Historical Society (RVIO). A copy of the page indicated that Sokolov is the president of the all-Russian military-historical public movement, so far is available in the Google cache .

Advisor to the chairman of the RVIO Irina Kaznacheva, in turn, told Gazeta.ru that Sokolov was not a member of the organization. “I hear the name of Sokolov for the first time. When they wrote about this, I did not understand how he was attached to the RVIO. We want to figure out what it is. Now we are trying to contact the chairman of the Scientific Council Vladimir Churov,” she said. Kaznacheva explained that the Scientific Council under the RVIO includes many different scientists, since the main task of the military -historical society is to consolidate military historians who write or speak out on the appropriate topic.