MOSCOW — Sunday was to have been the day of Oleg Sokolov’s spectacular suicide, in full Napoleonic costume, in St. Petersburg’s Peter and Paul Fortress across the Neva River from the Hermitage Museum. The 63-year-old Sokolov is an assistant professor of history and one of Russia’s most prominent scholarly re-enactors of the Napoleonic wars. Fellow students said that Yeshchenko lived with Sokolov for some time but had recently moved out. Some of his former students described Sokolov to local news organizations as passionate, knowledgeable, unstable and temperamental. A student in Moscow accused him last year of tying her to a chair and threatening her with a hot iron.

Source: National Post November 11, 2019 13:51 UTC