"He felt like an emperor." Historian Oleg Sokolov was arrested for two months

The Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested for two months the historian and teacher of the Institute of History of St. Petersburg State University Oleg Sokolov, the United press service of the vessels of St. Petersburg said. He will stay in the insulator until January 8 next year. To this extent, the accused himself insisted, although his defense tried to achieve house arrest.

The Sever. Realiy website says that it is known about the case against Sokolov at the moment, as lawyers are evaluated by the position of protection and that specialists under house violence think about this high -profile case.

The meeting in the Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg began at 14:00, and the Fontanka led the broadcast from there. A couple of hours before it began, dozens of journalists besieged the court building, in the corridors there was a crush. The defender of Sokolov, Alexander Paulev, petitioned the closure of the process due to the "intimate side of life", but the court refused the motivation "about everything already wrote the media." At the meeting, they read out a confession, from which it followed that Sokolov fired in Anastasia Eshchenko four times from a small -caliber rifle and then dismembered a saw and a kitchen knife.

During the confusion, they interrogated a certain Veronika Karagodin, who said that she knew Sokolova since the 1990s and that she "impressed his scale of personality."

Sokolov himself sobbed into the dock, he brought him water. He said that he was repenting and shocked, agreeing to arrest, called Anastasia Eshchenko his bride, with whom they lived together for five years.

The judge asked the accused what had happened.

“I said that Saturday-Sunday should spend with children. She came into rabies. This monstrous misfortune happened further ... I have never seen such an aggression stream ... an attack with a knife,” Sokolov said.

The defense defended the measure of restraint in the form of house arrest, but to no avail. The lawyer asked to extend the detention for 72 hours, but the court refused this.

On the morning of November 9, a historian, a specialist in Napoleonic France and a gentleman of the Order of the Honorary Legion Oleg Sokolov, was taken out of the Moika River, in which he tried to drown a backpack with chopped female hands. Later, the investigators found the body of a murdered woman in his apartment, who was shot and then dismembered. The murdered was 24-year-old Anastasia Eshchenko, a former student and cohabitant Sokolova.

The historian was detained on the same day and taken to the hospital with hypothermia. They immediately opened a criminal case, Sokolov was interrogated in the Investigative Committee and delivered to the temporary detention center.

In the apartment in the prestigious area of St. Petersburg, in which Eshchenko was killed, they discovered hacksaws, knives, an ax, a sawn -caliber rifle cut, from which Eshchenko could be killed, and almost 50 rounds. On the weekend in the Moika River, where a backpack was found with parts of the girl’s body, divers also found the remains of another person. To whom they belong is still unknown.

According to Fontanka, the defense of Sokolov plans to re -qualify the accusations from the murder for murder in a state of affect. This article involves up to three years in prison, instead of imprisonment for a term of 8 to 20 years (for a "pure" murder). Sokolov will be appointed a forensic psychological and psychiatric examination.

The mother of the murdered Anastasia Galina came to Petersburg from the Krasnodar Territory. She is a lieutenant colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, has been working as the head of the department for working with personnel, has been in the police since 2005.

The father of the deceased Oleg Doshchenko in the commentary of Komsomolskaya Pravda said that the daughter did not tell "nothing bad" about Oleg Sokolov. The brother of the murdered Sergei Yshchenko told the media that his sister and Sokolov were a couple, and the associate professor "demolished his head from jealousy." According to him, at about one in the morning on November 8, my sister called him and said that she wanted to go to a friend for a friend, but Sokolov did not like it, and he hit her. The girl wanted to move to the hostel, but she needed to return to his house to pick up things. In parting, she told her brother that everything would be in order with her.

The photographer Vitaly Ragulin often shot Oleg Sokolov on various historical reconstructions. In his opinion, he behaved as a "king and emperor."

He really felt like a king

-For the first time I met him near Smolensk in Lubino, where there was a reconstruction of the 200th anniversary of the battle between the Russian and French armies. It was interesting to see how he was talking with his reconstructors. He really felt like the king. It seemed to me that this is a game, an adult playing war. I saw the order from him, at first I thought - how so, take the order and put on the order. Then it turned out that he was really awarded the Order of the Honorary Legion of France. I learned more about him, met with him in Borodin later. I watched Sokolov because he has an interesting face. He seemed to me a competent and interesting person, listened to his lectures on the channel of the video blogger Goblin. When he talks about Napoleon and the events around him, one gets the impression that he himself was present there.

Sokolov, the author of numerous historical studies, has repeatedly acted as an expert in various media. Around the name of Sokolov, either a scandal about plagiarism flashed, then the Moscow historian Evgeny Ponasenkov accused him of theft of his two historical concepts and of shameless copying of huge pieces of two monographs. He filed a lawsuit against Sokolov on the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation, and last week the court sided with Ponasenkov, obliging Sokolov to pay compensation and apologize.

Sokolov’s students told the North. Real website that their teacher was hot -tempered and extremely emotional. Psychologist Olga Makhovskaya considers Sokolova "manic type with signs of narcissism." A forensic medical examination, the decision on which is made today in court, will find out whether Sokolov suffers from mental illness. Based on the known circumstances of the case, it should be assumed that it is unlikely that the crime was committed in a state of affect, lawyer Alexander Ostrovsky believes.

If you follow the logic of protection, then it has not come out of a state of affect for years

- affect is a short -term outbreak of emotions, and Sokolov manually behaved with other victims, whose statements were actually without consideration. If you follow the logic of protection, then for years it has not come out of a state of affect. Suppose he really has an outbreak of emotions, and he kills. But then, within a day, he considers how to get rid of the body and other traces of the crime. If this were in a state of affect, then he would have another model of behavior: he would immediately contact the police with repentance, and did not notice traces. In my opinion, motives made by protection look ridiculous.

Based on the results of this story, it is necessary to consider the question of the responsibility of the rector of St. Petersburg State University Nikolai Kropachev, Ostrovsky believes: "The facts of the unlawful and anti -pedagogical behavior of the historian were well known, but no measures were taken. This is negligence. If measures were taken in a timely manner and Sokolov was dismissed with a" wolf ticket ", then there would be no prolonged body of a young graduate student."

Petersburg civilian activists initiated a petition in which they demand a leadership of the university. It was already signed by 5.5 thousand people. They indicate that Sokolov in 2008 was accused of violence against another student, but then the case did not reach the court. In St. Petersburg on November 11, pickets were also criticized by the university leadership, which did not retire Sokolov after the history of 2008. At that moment, when a measure of restraint was carried out in court Sokolov, a message came that he was still fired from St. Petersburg State University.

There were other appeals to law enforcement agencies that did not end in anything. In 2007, the President of the International Military Historical Association Alexander Valkovich turned to the prosecutor's office regarding Oleg Sokolov’s behavior at a festival dedicated to the Battle Day in the Borodino field. As follows from the statement of Valkovich (is at the disposal of the North. Realiy), Sokolov appeared on the holiday without an invitation and behaved inappropriately. By his order, members of the Legion Vistula military-historical club, using rifles, “drove off the microphone of the commentator of the holiday with bayonets”. Before the reconstruction of the battle scenes, Sokolov made a fight between the participants in the performance. The organizers were forced to call the police. “There were no consequences for Sokolov then. The case was lowered on the brakes. Only the district police officer was engaged in the investigation. It didn’t go further,” said Valkovich North. Reali. “Sokolov is an extraordinary personality. He was very transformed, putting on the uniform of Napoleon. Not always for the better.”

As the Open Media found out , in 2013, the Office of the Investigative Committee on St. Petersburg suspected Sokolov in the illegal turnover of weapons. On March 14, operatives came to his apartment with a search in the case of members of the gang of Jacob Saturday. Investigators received information that part of the weapons and ammunition was transferred to the accused to Oleg Sokolov. The security forces opened the door and found in the room weapons of the time of the first half of the 20th century. Sokolov did not have documents that could explain the origin of the weapon, so the investigators began verification under Article 222 of the Criminal Code, but the criminal case did not come to the initiation of the criminal case, the interlocutor in the St. Petersburg Investigative Committee told the Media open.

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Tatyana Belova, a specialist in the Center for Assistance to the Assistance to Home violence in Moscow, says that in 70% of cases of requests for beatings, these complaints were then repeated in a more difficult version.

Usually violence increases, everything becomes more cruel and intense

- Home violence usually consists of several episodes. Whether this situation will continue depending on whether it is possible to protect the victim from the aggressor and how much he can get out of the situation of domestic violence. Usually violence grows, becomes more cruel and intense. Often, such cases may result in death. If you do not work with this, then the risks are very large. This is a story about power and control. A person wants to put another in a more vulnerable position. If the situation of violence is repeated or exacerbated - insults, humiliation, an attempt to control expenses, not to give way to loved ones - these are "bells" for physical violence.

In 2019, St. Petersburg State University conducted a study on domestic violence and found out that only 56% of applications from victims are registered with law enforcement agencies. Most often, statements are not recorded due to the reconciliation of the parties. The victims take approximately 6-8 statements from 10 submitted.