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Jennifer Siegel, Retelling the Victor's Tale; A Soviet hero at Leningrad and Stalingrad, the commonder captured Berlin--but he was less successful with Kremlin infighting. Wall Street Journal. June 25, 2012
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... ?mod=googlenews_wsj
(book review on Geoffrey Roberts, Stalin's General; The life of Georgy Zhukov. Random House, 2012)

Quote: "It was Zhukov who had captured Berlin, Zhukov to whom the Germans had surrendered in 1945.

Note:
(a) Georgy Zhukov
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy_Zhukov
(1896-1974; In 1915, he was conscripted into the Army of the Russian Empire, where he served first in the 106th Reserve Cavalry Regiment (then called the 10th Dragoon Novgorod Regiment); Father: Konstantin Artemyevitch Zhukov)

That is what the patronimic Konstantinovich means--vich being similar to "of."
(b) For Great Patriotic War, see Eastern Front (World War II)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)
(Date  June 22, 1941-May 9, 1945; known by many different names depending on the nation, notably the Great Patriotic War in the former Soviet Union, while known in Germany as the Eastern Front, the Eastern Campaign or the Russian Campaign; The battles on the Eastern Front constituted the largest military confrontation in history; The conflict began on June 22, 1941 with the Operation Barbarossa Offensive, when Axis forces crossed the borders described in the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, thereby invading the Soviet Union)

(c) The review states, "Rehabilitated after Stalin's death in 1953, he [Zhukov] was condemned in 1957."

Soviet Union
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_union
("Stalin died on 5 March 1953. Without a mutually agreeable successor, the highest Communist Party officials opted to rule the Soviet Union jointly. Nikita Khrushchev, who had won the power struggle by the mid-1950s, denounced Stalin's use of repression in 1956 and eased repressive controls over party and society. This was known as de-Stalinization")
Nikita Khrushchev
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev
(1894-1971; First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Sept 14, 1953-1964)

(d) For Leningrad, see Saint Petersburg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg
(In 1914 the name of the city was changed to Petrograd, in 1924 to Leningrad and in 1991 back to Saint Petersburg)

Quote: "On May 12, 1703, during the Great Northern War, Peter the Great captured Nyenskans [from Sweden, the place which would become St Petersberg] * * * On May 27 1703 * * * he laid down the Peter and Paul Fortress, which became the first brick and stone building of the new city."

(e) The review said, "It was Zhukov who had sat magisterially on horseback."

magisterial (adj; Latin noun magister master):
"of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a master or teacher: AUTHORITATIVE"
www.m-w.com

(f) plinth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plinth
(g) University College Cork
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_College_Cork
(h) For Stalingrad, see Volgograd
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volgograd
(section 1 History: read paragraph 4 from the bottom of that section)
(i) Kursk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kursk
("the village of Prokhorovka near Kursk was the center of the Battle of Kursk, a major engagement between Soviet and German forces which is widely believed by historians to have been the largest tank battle in history and was the last major German offensive mounted against the Soviet Union")