Georgy Zhukov was born in 1896 to an incredibly poor peasant family in the Kaluga Province, roughly 80 miles from Moscow. His family had a small house in the relatively poor town of Strelkovka, which Zhukov was quoted once as saying “looked the worst in the village”. His family was rather tough when it came to discipline, and floggings with a belt by his father Konstantin, were quite common in order to whip his boy into the shape he wanted. →Subscribe for new videos every Monday and Thursday! Visit our companion website for more: Credits: Host - Simon Whistler Author - Gregory Myers Producer - Jack Cole Executive Producer - Shell Harris Business inquiries to @ Other Biographics Videos: Joseph Stalin: The Red Terror Winston Churchill Biography: In the Darkest Hour Source/Further reading: Source 23: Source 24: