Konstantin Rokossovskiy (Polish: Konstanty Ksawerowicz Rokossowski , Russian: Константи́н Константи́нович Рокоссо́вский) (December 21 [O.S. December 9] 1896 – August 3, 1968) was a Soviet military commander, marshal, and Polish Defense Minister.
Rokossovsky was born in Warsaw, Poland; his family moved to Warsaw with the appointment of his father as the inspector of the Warsaw Railways. The Rokossovsky family was a member of the Polish nobility, a...
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Konstantin Rokossovskiy (Polish: Konstanty Ksawerowicz Rokossowski , Russian: Константи́н Константи́нович Рокоссо́вский) (December 21 [O.S. December 9] 1896 – August 3, 1968) was a Soviet military commander, marshal, and Polish Defense Minister.
Rokossovsky was born in Warsaw, Poland; his family moved to Warsaw with the appointment of his father as the inspector of the Warsaw Railways. The Rokossovsky family was a member of the Polish nobility, and had produced many cavalry men. However, Konstantin's father, Ksawery Wojciech Rokossowski, was a railway official in Russia and his Russian mother was a teacher. Orphaned at 14, Rokossovskii earned a living by working in a stocking factory, and some time later he became an apprentice stonemason. Much later in his life, the government of People's Republic of Poland used this fact for propaganda, claiming that Rokossovsky had helped to build Warsaw's Poniatowski Bridge. Rokossovsky patronymic Ksaverovich was Russified on his enlistment into...
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