This is reported by kp.ru.

“I deeply and sincerely repent.

I don't know how to prove it.

Is it really invisible?

For me, this is the worst pain that I have done.

For me, the only excuse is that I lost my head.

I had no idea what had happened.

I lost my head.

I appeal to Anastasia's parents so that they at least partially forgive me, ”the historian said.

The City Court of St. Petersburg refused to mitigate the sentence to the historian Oleg Sokolov for murder and possession of weapons.

Earlier, the Oktyabrsky District Court in St. Petersburg sentenced Sokolov to 12.5 years in a strict regime colony in the case of Yeshchenko's murder.