Russian teacher concedes murder after lady's arms found in bag

A well-known Russian history professor has admitted to killing his lover - a previous understudy - his legal advisor says after he was found in a waterway with a rucksack containing a lady's arms.

Oleg Sokolov, 63, was flushed and fell into the stream as he attempted to discard body parts, neighborhood media said.

Police at that point found the beheaded assemblage of Anastasia Yeshchenko, 24, at his home.

Prof Sokolov is a Napoleon master who has gotten France's Légion d'Honneur.

"He has conceded his blame," his legal advisor Alexander Pochuyev told AFP, including that he lamented what he had done and was presently participating.

Prof Sokolov told police that he murdered his sweetheart during a contention and afterward sawed off her head, arms, and legs.

He is said to have intended to dispose of the body before freely ending it all dressed as Napoleon.

Mr. Pochuyev said Prof Sokolov - who has been getting clinic treatment for hypothermia - may have been under pressure.

The student of history has composed a few books on Napoleon and furthermore went about as a recorded expert on a few movies. He and Ms. Yeshchenko had co-created a few works.

Both he and Ms. Yeshchenko contemplated French history and delighted in wearing period ensembles, with Prof Sokolov taking on the appearance of Napoleon.

Understudies depicted him as both a skilled teacher who communicated in French and did impressions of Napoleon and as a "crack" who called his darling "Josephine" and requested to be tended to as "Sire", AFP revealed.

He was additionally an individual from France's Institute of Social Science, Economics and Politics (Issep), which on Saturday said it had expelled him from his situation on its logical advisory group.

"We learn with loathsomeness... the appalling wrongdoing of which Oleg Sokolov is liable," it said in an announcement.

"We would never envision that he could submit such a loathsome demonstration," the announcement included.

Issep was established by Marion Maréchal, the niece of far-right National Rally party pioneer Marine Le Pen and a previous official for the extreme-right National Front gathering.