Marat smashes his racquet again...

[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

Apparently, according to some accounts, the narky tennis player Marat Safin, who lost at Wimbledon today, was named after Jean-Paul Marat by his grandmother.
Safin himself says he thinks the name's Muslim, but it isn't, is it (?). In the interview about it, he sounds clueless, so I'm hoping it was a Russian communist grandmother keeping the revolutionary flame alive (unfortunately, on someone too stupid to appreciate it).

Comments

[trf-chan.livejournal.com]

O_O Yes, I'm quite sure Marat isn't a Muslim name, unless there's something I'm missing. That's cool, though, even if young Marat himself doesn't seem to appreciate it. XD

[citoyenneclark.livejournal.com]

I came across the name Marat in an artical about Turkmenistan. It might actually be a Muslim name.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E02E5DA143FF936A35752C0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all

[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

Aww! - let's just hope there's a lot of former-Soviet revolutionary fervour out there, or something!