Oleg Valeryevich Sokolov

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OW Sokolow and historical staging on the VI. Science and education forum "Scientists against Myths" in St. Petersburg on February 11, 2018

Oleg Valerjewitsch Sokolow ( Russian Олег Валерьевич Соколов ; born July 9, 1956 in Leningrad ) is a Russian historian who primarily researches the Napoleonic period . He is a lecturer at the Department of Modern History at Saint Petersburg State University . In November 2019, he confessed to having killed and dismembered his 24-year-old partner.

Life

Career

Sokolov graduated from the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute in Physics and Engineering in 1979 . In 1984 he graduated from the Faculty of History at Leningrad University. There he submitted in 1991 under Vladimir Rewunenkow his dissertation on the candidate of history on the subject of the officer corps of the French army in the Ancien Régime and during the revolution 1789–1799. Since 2000 he has been teaching at the University of Saint Petersburg .

His achievements lie in a number of historical works on European military history from the 17th to the early 19th centuries. His main study on the Napoleonic Army ( Russian Армия Наполеона ) was translated into French in 2003. The two-volume monograph Austerlitz followed in 2006 . Napoléon, l'Europe et la Russie ( Russian: Аустерлиц. Наполеон, Россия и Европа. 1799–1805 гг. ), A study on the conditions and the course of Napoleon's First Coalition War . For this he translated the reports of the French officer Octave Le Vavasseur (Souvenirs Militaires) , who took part in all of Napoleon's military campaigns except the Russian campaign in 1812 , into Russian and commented on them in great detail.

Sokolov is also considered to be one of the founders of the re-enactment movement in Russia and liked to wear historical costumes. He often disguised himself as Napoleon I.

Sokolov's scientific and social merits were honored by the French state with acceptance into the Legion of Honor (knight). Also in France, he was a member of the private institution Institut des sciences sociales, économiques et politiques , which was founded in Lyon in 2018 by the French politician of the Rassemblement National and granddaughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen , Marion Maréchal , until the expulsion on November 9, 2019 to train a right-wing political elite. In Russia he belonged to the reactionary-nationalist Russian Military History Society .

Sokolow was married and has two daughters. At the time of the murder of his partner, he had been separated from his wife for some time.

Murder case

On the morning of November 9, 2019, Sokolov was saved from the Moika in St. Petersburg, very drunk and hypothermic ; a backpack with body parts of his partner Anastassija Jeschtschenko, a doctoral student and co-author of his writings, was found on him. Shortly thereafter, he confessed to having killed Yeshchenko in an argument. During the investigation that followed, it was found that surveillance cameras had filmed Sokolov throwing plastic bags into the river near his home. It is believed that Sokolov shot Yeshchenko, with whom he had lived for three years, with a sawed-off small-caliber hunting rifle of the TOS -17 type ; the weapon, ammunition and other body parts of the victim were found in his home following his arrest. His lawyer confirmed that his client had admitted his guilt, but refused to give a detailed testimony so as not to incriminate himself. In 2008, Sokolow was reported by a student for serious abuse. This case never went to court.

The trial of Sokolov began on June 9, 2020 in St. Petersburg; he is charged with murder and illegal gun possession. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the proceedings are taking place without an audience and can be followed via live stream on the Internet.

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Commons : Oleg Valeryevich Sokolow  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Lucien Jacques: L'historien russe Oleg Sokolov avoue avoir tué et démembré sa jeune compagne. In: liberation.fr . November 10, 2019, accessed on November 11, 2019 (French).
  2. ↑ a b c d Sarah Rainsford: Woman's arms found in Russian professor's bag. In: bbc.com . November 11, 2019, accessed November 11, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c Silke Bigalke: Well-known Napoleon expert is said to have murdered girlfriend. In: sueddeutsche.de . November 11, 2019, accessed November 11, 2019 .
  4. ^ A b Silke Bigalke: Saint Petersburg: "Napoleon" in court. In: sueddeutsche.de . June 9, 2020, accessed June 20, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Julija Latynina: Он же сир! «Наполеон» Соколов считал оскорблением сам факт того, что девушка могла от него уйти in: Novaja Gaseta , November 19, 2019, in Russian, November 15, 2019, No. 128, November 15, 2019, Russian
personal data
SURNAME Sokolow, Oleg Valeryevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Соколов, Олег Валерьевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad