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who is in jail charged with the murder of PhD student Anastasia Yeshchenko historian Oleg Sokolov said that he began to write a historical novel. It is reported RT with reference to the letter of Professor.

According to him, the book will tell about his business and about a Russian officer of the Imperial guards, sent at the beginning of the XIX century in Paris, as assistant of the Prince Volkonsky, to whom the Emperor Alexander I ordered to learn how to defeat Napoleon’s army. Sokolov said that it was “a really interesting page of the Russian-French history, almost unknown while neither in Russia, nor in France.”

the Historian said that while only making the outline of the future work, and his friends send him the scanned pages of the required books. Sokolov admitted that for him “this is the only possibility to survive the terrible nightmare.”

Earlier in court Oleg Sokolov protested, because comparing him with Napoleon Bonaparte. He said that he put up crazy but actually he is a “historian who penetrates deeply into the story.” Sokolov said that he fully devoted himself to the study of Napoleon, but he’s not like the French Emperor.

Oleg Sokolov was detained November 9, 2019 in Saint-Petersburg while trying to drown in the river Sink backpack with a severed female hands. He later admitted that he killed mistress Anastasia Yeshchenko, then dismembered her body to dispose of evidence. After that, he allegedly planned to take their own life in the fortress in a Napoleon costume. Now, Sokolov in detention.