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# Marshal Zhukov cremated and interred in the Kremlin Wall despite his family's request
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/segodnia-den-rozhdeniia-marshala-georgiia-konstantinovicha-zhukova-1896-1974/
- Published: 2021-12-01T08:47:17.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T19:07:41.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Moscow, Observations, Society, People

Today is the birthday of Marshal Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov (1896-1974)

When Zhukov died, his family appealed to the country's supreme leadership to have his body committed to the earth, as the Marshal of Victory himself had wished, but in vain: he was cremated, and his ashes were interred within the Kremlin Wall. It would seem that when a man becomes a symbol, it is not only his memory that is nationalised but his body too, and he no longer belongs fully either to himself or to his family.