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A chunky, instinctive fighter with an elaborate mustache, Budenny was named one of the original Red Army field marshals in 1935 and commanded the ill-fated southern army during World War II.

Semyon M. Budenny, 90, Russian war hero celebrated in song and story for his guerrilla cavalry exploits during the Russian civil war of 1918-21; in Moscow.

Budenny won the Order of Lenin eight times, most recently in April of this year.

Tossing in short and sometimes amusing sketches of Soviet leaders, from mustachioed old Marshal Budenny to Bulganin and Khrushchev, Soloviev has written the livelier book.

This unit was soon incorporated in a cavalry regiment, commanded by ex-Cavalry Sergeant Semyon Timoshenko, which became part of a Red cavalry army led by Semyon Budenny, an ex-Cossack.