The court did not soften the verdict of the historian Sokolov in the case of the murder of a graduate student

The murder was committed on the night of November 8, 2019.

According to the investigation, Sokolov at his home in St. Petersburg shot a graduate student Anastasia Yeshchenko, who was his mistress, with a cut off hunting carbine, and on the night of November 9 decided to get rid of the body by dismembering it with a saw and a hacksaw.