Moscow, aged 71. His ashes were buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis on Red Square. Dates of rank promoted major general, 4 June 1940 promoted lieutenant general, 14 July 1941 promoted colonel general, 15 January 1943 promoted army general, 28 April 1943 promoted Marshal of the Soviet Union, 29 June 1944 declared Marshal of Poland 2 November 1949 Family Rokossovsky and his wife Julia had a daughter named Ariadna (1925-1978). During World War II, he met military doctor Galina Talanova, with whom he had an illegitimate daughter named Nadezhda (born 1945). Rokossovsky's great-granddaughter (born 1980) works as a journalist for the Russian newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta. Honours and awards : Cross of St. George, 4th class Medal of St. George, 2nd, 3rd and 4th class : "Gold Star" Hero of the Soviet Union, twice (29 July 1944, 1 June 1945) Order of Victory (No. 4 – 30 March 1945) Seven Orders of Lenin (16 August 1936, 2 January 1942, 29 July 1944, 21 February 1945, 26 December 1946, 20 December 1956, 20 December 1966) Order of the October Revolution (22 February 1968) Order of the Red Banner, six times (23 May 1920, 2 December 1921, 22 February 1930, 22 July 1941, 3 November 1944, 6 November 1947) Order of Suvorov, 1st class (28 January 1943) Order of Kutuzov, 1st class (27 August 1943) Medal "For the Defence of Stalingrad" (22 December 1942) Medal "For the Defence of Moscow" (1 May 1944) Medal "For the Defence of Kiev" (21 June 1961) Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw" (9 June 1945) Medal "For the Capture of Königsberg" (9 June 1945) Medal "For the Capture of Berlin" (9 June 1945) Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (9 May 1945) Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" (7 May 1965) Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army" (22 February 1938) Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy" (22 February 1948) Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (18 December 1957) Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (26 December 1967) Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow" Honorary weapon – sword inscribed with golden national emblem of the Soviet Union (1968) : Order of the Builders of People's Poland (1951) Order of the Cross of Grunwald, 1st