the record of the commander's birth was discovered by pensioner vladimir abramchuk. while studying his own family tree in the reading room of the national archive. according to the found birth certificates, the boy konstantin was born on september 3, 1889 on belarusian soil, in the telekhany of the pinsk district of the minsk province. but why did konstantin rokosovsky himself hide the place and date of his birth? experts have different versions of this, but be that as it may, we can now confidently say that one of the marshals of victory was born. on belarusian soil had belarusian roots. in 1914, he entered the russian imperial army as a volunteer hunter, as they were also called, since 1914 he served on the fronts of the first world war, and he managed to master weapons quite quickly, that is, a saber, a pike, learned to shoot and was a very brave commander, and often went on reconnaissance, so we can note that the initial period of his life begins to be associated with the army. since 1918, after the revolution, konstantin rakosovsky served in the red army, gradua

the record of the commander's birth was discovered by pensioner vladimir abramchuk. quickly managed to master weapons, that is , a saber, a pike, learned to shoot and was a very brave commander, and often went on reconnaissance, so we can note that here is the initial period of his life, begins to be associated with the army. since 1918 after the revolution, konstantin rakosovsky served in the red army, graduated from the military academy in 1936 and became one of the first commanders of the cavalry corps, but a year later, on a false denunciation , he fell into the repression machine, he got into the terror machine and, it seemed, was doomed. in the thirty -seventh year, he was unexpectedly arrested and spent several years in prison, where they tried in every way to beat testimony out of him that he was a japanese and polish spy. rakosovsky was brutally tortured. the head of the leningrad nkvd leonid zakovsky, whose motto was the phrase: "we must destroy the enemy to the end, and we will destroy him." the trial was postponed because all the witnesses who gave any testimony against him