"With a grand scale, hit me with a fist in the face"

The ex -wife accused the rector of St. Petersburg State University of many years of violence

Former wife of the rector of St. Petersburg State University Nikolai Kropacheva lawyer Natalya Shatikhina said that for many years he brutally beat her. According to Shatikhina, for the first time Kropachev did this when she was pregnant, after which insults and threats became regular. "Cold" says that this is known.

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Where should I call if dad will beat mom again?

The fact that the ex-husband regularly beat her, Shatikhina told her in her telegram channel. The first beating that happened in 2005 describes this: “I remember well one thing-how they get on the floor by the scruff of the floor, they yell something and crush face to a metal side of the bed. And I, bent over, closed my stomach with both hands, because I was afraid that I would hit them, there was nothing to depreciate, so then there were completely blue shoulders that took on the blows on the frame. For a long time I wore t -shirts with sleeves to the elbow. ”

After this incident, according to Shatikhina, Kropachev admitted her love, gave gifts, but he did not apologize. While Shatikhina says, she and her relatives were “full dependence” from Kropachev. Shatikhina then worked at the Department of Criminal Law of the Yurfak of St. Petersburg State University and was going to go on maternity leave.

“I decided that this is such a failure in the system, it is necessary to try more and better. The funny thing is that after such and any other ugly scenes a person never repented, blamed, nothing ... He certainly found what to be offended by himself, and he went pouted for months, ”writes Shatikhin.

Beating, according to Shatikhina, continued after the birth of Lisa's daughter. Shatikhina says that one day Kropachev hit her in the face with a “street slipper”, which is why she had a “huge bruise, which was impossible to hide near the temple”.

“There was probably a concussion, because I was mutated for several days. And then we entered the rhythm. Scenes and scandals with obscenities and flying objects regularly, and a couple of times a year something like that. Usually on the body. Until now, if I have a bruise on my forearm from something, I am taking a restless look of my homes, ”she says.

Shatikhina also writes that Kropachev beat her in the face: first with his palm, and after a few years - already with his fist. She did not contact the police. “Well, a bruise on your body or several. Will you call the police with the words that the chairman of their public (and another 50) advice beat you? AND? I, unfortunately, have a specialized education to understand the prospects, ”Shatikhina explained.

She writes that Kropachev often began scandals before going to bed and thereby woke their daughter, who "jumped out of his sleeping from the bedroom, climbed between them."

“At some point, my mother told me that the child, who did not go to school, asked her to give her a number where to call if her dad would beat his mother again, so I have to stop these showdowns,” wrote Shatikhina.

Relieved, laughing wildly

According to Shatikhina, over time, Kropachev completely stopped restraining himself and could hit her at any moment. And the last five to seven years of marriage during quarrels, he began to strangle her. The couple divorced only in the summer of 2022.

“You are knocked on your back, get on your stomach with your knee, fall on your hands with your whole body and choke. The studies are added to forensic medicine in history - you understand that now the larynx, a hyoid bone, and that’s all. All efforts go to at least somehow try to unhook your hands, maintain maximum composure and wheeze: “Let go!”, She wrote.

According to Shatikhina, after that Kropachev could give her a slap in or twisted, and then "left, laughing wildly." In recent years, according to her, the former spouse “after each such seizure” called his assistant light and said: “Svetochka, I will not come to work tomorrow! Natalya Sergeevna attacked me again and scratched everything. I can’t keep a meeting. ”

Shatikhina believes that Kropachev is confident in his impunity: therefore, he could hit her under the cameras (she published a video that shows how a man who looked like Kropachev is losing his own to a woman) and in the presence of her mother. “On any of our documents, photos, videos, there is his elementary phrase:“ This was not. ” I heard this so many times that I learned by heart. Our home mantra. “No one dares to tell me this in the face, and if this is not pronounced, this was not. All,” says Shatikhina.

She also shared with journalists an audio recording, which, according to, is stated, conversations and quarrels with Kropachev. On them, a male voice says: “I cannot sleep. Again, anger takes me. I would like to strangle or nail you, yes. <...> I am standing at night yesterday and think: to beat you, strangle you with a pillow and that’s it. There would be an opportunity now, I would beat you with pleasure. There would be an opportunity - I would cut into pieces. ”

In the posted audio recordings, Kropachev (according to Shatikhina) calls her “fat creature”, threatens to put her naked photos after a divorce, and also says, probably in the bathroom: “I experience a lot of emotions, looking at this fat creature, this bitch, whore.”

"Cold" turned for a commentary to Kropachev. At the time of publication, no answer was received. The Rotonda publication writes that Kropachev answered a phone call from the journalists of the publication, but referred to employment.

Rotonda also contacted Shatikhina. She said that she did not want to make a conflict in a public field because of her daughter and dependence on Kropachev at work: “I was trying to just wait until the last, but I see that a person continues to do the same, just with the help of an administrative resource.”

What is known about Kropachev and Shatikhina

Since 2008, Nikolai Kropachev has been holding the position of rector of St. Petersburg State University . He graduated from the Law Faculty of then Leningrad State University, and later for 12 years he held the post of dean of the faculty. The same faculty was graduated from two Russian presidents - Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, and the latter Kropachev led seminars. Medvedev also worked at the legal faculty under the leadership of Kropachev before he moved to the Kremlin administration. Kommersant wrote that they were connected by “trusting relations”.

Natalya Shatikhina is the managing partner of the law firm CLC. She graduated from the Law Faculty of St. Petersburg State University . From 2001 to 2022, she held the position of senior teacher and associate professor of the Department of Criminal Law there.

There were a lot of high -profile affairs in Shatikhina's career. For example, she represented the interests of the then head of the Department of Automobile Industry of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Pak in the case against the players Alexander Kokorin and Pavel Mamaev.

She also represented the interests of the former acting governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov in the case of protecting honor and dignity. The opposition ex-deputy Maxim Reznik filed a lawsuit then to the court.

In 2019, Shatikhina almost received a disciplinary sanction because of her comments about the case of journalist Ivan Golunov, to whom the police threw drugs. In her telegram channel, she criticized the actions of Golunov’s defenders and claimed that the journalist was “somehow involved in the spread of drugs”. The lawyer chamber then decided not to arouse production.