Early military career Konstantin Rokossovsky



graduates of leningrad higher cavalry school 1924/25

sitting in second row (right left): 1. bagramyan, 3. yeremenko. standing in third row (right left): 1. zhukov, 5. rokossovsky.


it in mongolia met wife julia barminan, high school teacher fluent in 4 languages , had studied greek mythology, whom married in 1923. daughter ariadna born in 1925. in 1924 , 1925 attended leningrad higher cavalry school, first met georgy zhukov. returned mongolia, trainer mongolian people s army. after, while serving in special red banner eastern army under vasily blücher, took part in russo-chinese eastern railroad war of 1929–1930 when soviet union intervened return chinese eastern railway joint chinese , soviet administration, after chinese warlord zhang xueliang of republic of china attempted seize complete control of railway.


it in 1930s rokossovsky s military career first became closely intertwined semyon timoshenko , georgy zhukov, when rokossovsky commander of 7th samara cavalry division, zhukov brigade commander under him , timoshenko superior corps commander. both became principal actors in life during world war ii, served directly under both @ different times. sense of nature of beginning of rokossovsky s famous world war ii rivalry zhukov can gathered reading rokossovsky s comments in official report on zhukov s character:



has strong will. decisive , firm. demonstrates initiative , skillfully applies it. disciplined. demanding , persistent in demands. ungracious , not sufficiently sympathetic person. rather stubborn. painfully proud. in professional terms trained. broadly experienced military leader... absolutely cannot used in staff or teaching jobs because constitutionally hates them.



rokossovsky among first realize potential of armoured assault. supporter of creation of strong armoured corps red army, championed marshal mikhail tukhachevsky in theory of deep operations .








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