Kult rokossovsky biography

Konstantin Konstantinovitsj Rokossovski was born December 21 1896 in Velikiye Luki, a village near Pskov in northern Russia. His father was Polish and was employed as a train driver, while his mother taught Russian.

Shortly after he was born, the family moved to Warsaw, at the time still part of Czarist Russia. Konstantin attended school there but had to quit early because of the death of his father in 1905 and of his mother in 1911. Konstantin earned a living as stonemason, bricklayer and jack-of-all-trades.

When World War One broke out in 1914, Konstantin reported to the army voluntarily.

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Konstantin’s patronym was not derived from the Polish name of his father, Wojciech as usual but Konstantinovitsj, something Konstantin had thought of himself to make a career in the Soviet army easier. He was placed in the 5 Karoo Regiment, one of Russia’s oldest cavalry regiments in the rank of N.C.O.

Konstantin fought bravely and was awarded the St. George Cross 4t