1793 Murder of Marat

225 years ago, on July 13, 1793, Jean-Paul Marat, publisher of the newspaper "Friend of the People", one of the leaders of the Jacobins and the ideologist of revolutionary terror, was stabbed to death with a kitchen knife in his own bath. His killer, 24-year-old Charlotte Corday, entered the house of Marat, promising to tell him about a new conspiracy of enemies of the Jacobins - the Girondins. From prison, she wrote to one of the leaders of the Girondins: "I thought I would die immediately; courageous people and truly worthy of all praise protected me from the understandable fury of those unfortunates whom I deprived of their idol."

On July 17 Korday was executed. She bravely faced death.

Pushkin in the poem "Dagger" wrote about the murder of Marat as follows:

The fiend of rebellion raises an evil cry:

Contemptible, dark and bloody,

Over the corpse of liberty headless

An ugly executioner arose.

Apostle of death, tired Hades

With a finger he appointed victims,

But the Supreme Court sent him

You and the virgin Eumenides.