Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny (also spelled Budennii, Budenny, Budyenny etc, Russian: Семён Михайлович Будённый) (October 26, 1973) was a Soviet military commander and an ally of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Budyonny was born into a poor peasant family in the Terek Cossack region of southern Russia. He worked as a farm laborer until 1903, when he was drafted into the army of the Russian Empire, … Wikipedia
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