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Russia Charges Famed Historian With Murder After Lover's Severed Arms Found
in Bag

Reuters

   MOSCOW - A Russian court on Monday charged a distinguished historian
   known for re-enacting Napoleonic battle scenes with the murder of his
   partner after he was found in a river with a rucksack containing her
   severed arms.

   Oleg Sokolov, a 63-year-old history professor at St Petersburg State
   University confessed in court on Monday to shooting dead Anastasia
   Yeshchenko, a 24-year-old postgraduate, with a rifle.

   Sokolov told the court he had loved Yeshchenko and that they had been
   lovers for five years. But they argued over his children from another
   relationship and he had "lost control," shooting her four times with a
   sawn-off rifle, he said.

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