(1896 - 1968) Soviet general who held the critical northwest approaches to Moscow, later headed defenses at Stalingrad and near the end of the war encircled and destroyed the German 4th Army. Partly-printed D.S. in Cyrillic as Supreme Commander of the Northern Group of Troops, 2pp. 4to., [n.p.], Dec. 31, 1947, a military attestation for an artillery captain. Rokossovsky signs at the bottom of the second page in green ink. Trimmed at the left edge, shows ragged edges at left, right and bottom, with toning, just good.