PSA: She Lost Her Head...........The Dangers of Cosplay
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A well-known Russian historian has confessed to murdering his lover... after he was found in a river with a backpack containing a woman's arms. [ In addition to murdering his young lover, ] Prof Sokolov [ also ] enjoyed dressing up as Napoleon.
Prof Sokolov reportedly told police that he killed his lover during an argument and then sawed off her head, arms and legs. [ WWTD - What Would TUSCL Do?: How many mongers would decapitate the body after murdering their DS? ]
Oleg Sokolov, 63, was drunk and fell into the river as he tried to dispose of body parts. He is said to have planned to get rid of the body before publicly taking his own life dressed as Napoleon.
Police then found the decapitated body of Anastasia Yeshchenko, 24, at [ Sokolov's ] home in the city of St Petersburg.
Ms Yeshchenko moved to St Petersburg ... from [ the ] Krasnodar region in southern Russia, and was a postgraduate student at the time of her death. She studied French history and co-authored several historical works with Prof Sokolov. "She was quiet, sweet and always the ideal student," an acquaintance told Ria news agency.
[ But it was the couple's not-so-secret life outside the classroom that drew the most attention. ] "Absolutely everyone knew about their relationship."
The couple enjoyed wearing period costumes, with Prof Sokolov dressing up as Napoleon. Students described Prof Sokolov as both a talented lecturer who spoke French and did impressions of Napoleon and as a "freak" who called his lover "Josephine" and asked to be addressed as "Sire" [ aspiring megalomaniac? ]
"He has admitted his guilt," his lawyer Alexander Pochuyev told AFP, adding that [ Solokov ] regretted what he had done and was now cooperating. [ Good move, Oleg, because ] Russian media reported that [ Anastasia's ] mother was a police lieutenant colonel, her father a school PE teacher, [ and ] a brother... once played as a goalkeeper for the national junior football team. A family well-equipped to mete out justice if Sokolov left police custody.
Thoughts and Suggestions:
These May-December romances rarely work out.
Everyone involved should agree on a Safeword
Check out this link for a picture of Oleg in full glorious costume and the unedited BBC story:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50…
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The papers here are full of details of this murder, the tragic and gruesome tale of a brilliant and beautiful young student shot and dismembered by her 63-year old former professor-turned-lover.
In these accounts, Oleg Sokolov emerges a historian whose **interest in Napoleon bordered on the obsessive**. He had a glittering CV as a respected expert on French military history who'd been visiting professor at the Sorbonne. He was also a major figure in the world of historical re-enactment.
One friend told Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper that he'd organised costume balls and picnics, as well as recreating battles.
But organisations he's been linked to have now scrubbed his name from their websites.
Anastasia Yeshchenko's three-year-long affair with the married professor was common knowledge at the university. Friends say she was a top student, highly intelligent, who shared her lover's passion for Napoleonic history.
One person described the professor as "eccentric but not aggressive"; others claimed **he considered himself Napoleon reincarnate**.
Anastasia's brother told RBK Media that she called him in tears in the early hours of Friday morning, saying the couple had had a **furious row sparked by the professor's jealousy**. She was planning to spend the night in a student hostel.
At 01:49 the two spoke again, and Anastasia told her brother she was fine. It was the last anyone heard from her.
Analysis by Sarah Rainsford [BBC's] Moscow correspondent