Konstantin Rokossovsky

Konstantin Rokossovsky was born on Dec 21, 1896 in Poland]. Konstantin Rokossovsky's big-screen debut came with in .

Soviet Army Gen. Konstantin Rokossovsky was born in Warsaw, Poland, which was then part of the Russian Empire (his father had moved the family to Warsaw after being appointed Inspector of the Polish Railways. His mother was Polish). Although the Rokossovsky family was descended from the Polish noble classes and its men had a tradition of service in the Polish cavalry, Konstantin was orphaned at age 14 and had no intention of joining the Polish army. He held a variety of jobs, but at the outbreak of World War I he enlisted in the Russian army, serving in a cavalry unit and working his way up to the rank of Second Lieutenant. At the outbreak of the Communist Revolution in 1917, Rokossovsky joined the Bolshevik Party and not long afterward left the army to join the revolutionary forces and was soon promoted to the rank of Commander. He led the Red Army against the forces of White Army Gen.