In the national historical archive of Belarus, they found a record of the birth of the Soviet Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, reported on the organization’s website.
According to the recording in the metric book for 1889, Rokossovsky was born in the village of Telehans of the Minsk province of the Russian Empire (now the village of the Ivatsevic District of the Brest region of Belarus). The protocol states that Konstantin’s boy was born on September 3, 1889 (old style) in the Family of the Nobleman, Catholic Ksavier Rokossovsky and his wife, Orthodox believing Antonina. The mother of the future Marshal was from Tejan, what researchers were known about, but they did not assume that Rokossovsky is a native of the same city.
As noted in the archive, the warlord himself pointed out different places and different dates of his birth at different times, which is why the secret of his origin could not be revealed. So, in his candidate card from 1920, Rokossovsky pointed out the place of birth of the Red Army, and after he after victory in the Great Patriotic War, awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union and installed a bust in the Great Luki (now the city In the Pskov region), began to call the birthplace of this particular city.
“It is very important that one of the Marshals of Victory, the commander of the 1st Belarusian Front, the commander of the Victory Parade in 1945 was born in the Belarusian land and had Belarusian roots,” the publication says.
“comparing all the facts, including the birth of his mother and father, we are convinced that we are talking about Marshal Rokossovsky,” said KP.BY director of the National Historical Archive of Belarus Dmitry Yatsevich in response to the question, can not belong Record the namesake of Marshal.
Konstantin Rokossovsky is one of the largest military leaders of World War II, twice the hero of the Soviet Union, the only one in the Soviet history Marshal of the two countries – the USSR and Poland. He participated in the First World War, after the October Revolution, he passed on the side of the Bolsheviks and was a civil war. In 1937, the warlord was repressed: he was expelled from the party for the “loss of class vigilance”, fired from the army and arrested on charges of relations with the exploration of Poland and Japan. According to evidence of people from Rokossovsky’s environment, he was tortured in prison. The sentencing has been postponed several times, and in March 1940, the military was liberated and rehabilitated, restored in the party and army, and soon increased in the rank. In the course of the Great Patriotic Rockossovsky, he participated in the command of the troops in the battle for Moscow, Stalingrad and Kursk battles, operations “Bagration” and others was seriously wounded. After the war, seven years was the Minister of Defense of the Polish People’s Republic and during that time actually reorganized the Polish army, but as a result of the arrival of the antistalinists to power in Poland, it was forced to return to the USSR; Nowadays, incidents with the desecration of monuments Marshal took place in Poland. Died in August 1968 from cancer.