Early Life
Born into a large peasant family in the village of Serebryanye Prudy in the Tula region south of Moscow, he was the eighth of twelve children and the fifth of eighth sons. Chuikov and all his brothers became soldiers and fought in the Russian Civil War. At the age of twelve he left school and his family home to earn his living in a factory in St. Petersburg, turning out spurs for cavalry officers.
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