“Congenital trooper-head” 25 APR 1883-born Civil war hero Semyon Budyonny. Krasnoarmeyskaya helmet with a red star — “budenovka” — named in his honor. “He alone will be our whole squadrons”, — he said about him Lenin, calling “the most brilliant cavalry commander in the world”. And certification the legendary commander stated: “a Congenital trooper head… In the position of commander of the Horse indispensable.” Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny was born April 25, 1883 in the family of a laborer in a Cossack village on the don. Childhood was rotten, I was a blacksmith’s assistant, a blacksmith. With the horse coped not worse than the Cossack for that in the summer of 1900 after riding in the village of Platovskiy received an award from the then Secretary of war a silver ruble. In 1903 he was drafted into the army. He served in the far East in a Dragoon regiment, participated in
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