Street life
Briquette and Budyonny
City: Ekaterinburg
Area: Kirovsky
Type: dead end and street
Name: Briquette and Budyonny
“In the end, they somehow decided to let him into a meeting of the famous Politburo. My memory definitely preserved this funny event. At a meeting of the Politburo, the turn comes to the questions of the military department. I order that the summoned military men, including Budyonny, be allowed into the hall. on tiptoe, but loudly clattering with heavy boots. The passage between the table and the wall is wide, but Budyonny’s whole figure expresses fear that something will fall over and break. Budyonny sits down next to him. His mustache sticks out like a cockroach. He looks straight ahead and clearly doesn’t understand anything about what is being said. He seems to think: “Wow, this is the famous Politburo, which, they say, can do anything, even turn a man into a woman.”
It was great person
Budyonny Semyon Mikhailovich. Marshal Soviet Union. Three times Hero of the Soviet Union (1958, 1963, 1968). During the Civil War, commander of the 1st Cavalry Army. During the Great Patriotic War, commander-in-chief of the troops of the South-Western and North Caucasus directions, commander of the Reserve and North Caucasus fronts. One of the organizers of mass repressions among the military in the 30s and 40s.
Budyonny is an outstanding person. Both in terms of their abilities and in terms of their external qualities. The Marshal was respected and loved by everyone - from ordinary soldiers to leaders Communist Party And Soviet state. He skillfully and quickly resolved difficult issues of recruiting and putting together cavalry formations, training them in the art of combat, supply, and personnel selection. Budyonny worked a lot and persistently in the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR, which took the necessary measures to strengthen the country's defense capability.
It was about him that legends and fables were made. His gorgeous mustache attracted special attention. Also in Soviet years There were half-true stories about how store clerks were asked to show “that earthenware kitty over there.” “This is not a kitty, but Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny,” answered the trade workers. Or here’s another story that people were afraid to tell even in their kitchens.
At a meeting of the Central Committee, Stalin says in his report: “There are two questions on the agenda. Question one. Repaint Budyonny’s mustache in green color. Question two. Send half of the Council of People's Commissars to Kolyma." Everyone was surprised - why are the mustaches green? "Okay, comrades, said Stalin, I knew that the second question would not raise any objections."
In our city, Budyonny Street is located in a mountain shield. There used to be one like this in the city itself. But only she was excluded, and the residential buildings that were located here were redirected to Parkovoy Lane and Solnechnaya Street. This is a pioneer microdistrict.
Don't tell me how to get there.
There is a dead end on Isoplit. And this official name, such as a street, alley or boulevard. It's called Briquette. There is a cheerful alley nearby, we already talked about it once in our program. Izoplitnaya Street passes by. And Briketny himself is a real dead end. Just a turn deep into the houses without a second exit. You can get there by bus 10. Stop "Nursery". By the way, nearby, there is Nareznaya Lane... J . But this is true, by the way.
I remember how it happened.
A long time ago, on March 14, 1989, when the USSR was still in the yard. Residents of what was then Sverdlovsk saw a “ball with rays” over the city late in the evening. It was noticed by residents of different areas, including Budyonny Street.
SEREZHA According to the stories of witnesses to the incident, it is possible to trace the flight path of the ball. “I walked towards Uralskaya Street. I see that the ball is flying, like a star in color, visually – with a diameter of 9-10 centimeters. From it there is a scattering beam, like from a flashlight. It moved slowly from northwest to southeast.” We also noticed it above Khimmash, and on concrete goods, and in the city center. "Flying glowing ball“like a ball, rays came from behind him,” some said. “I was returning from the station, I live on Zavokzalnaya Street... The rays diverged like a fan... they different lengths", echoed others. “It looked like a shuttlecock, I saw it standing near the dormitory of the Soviet Party school on 8 March Street. “On Lenin Avenue we were between the Gifts and Kulinariya stores, facing UPI. A luminous point appeared from the side of the main building of the university, behind which a light trail diverged at an angle of 90 degrees. It is not homogeneous. The dot was blue and white; when it went behind the cloud, it became invisible.” If you plot the points where Sverdlovsk residents saw the “ball” on a map of the city, then the line connecting these points will coincide with the route described in the first message. A mysterious object, emitting light and glowing itself, flew over the heads of Sverdlovsk residents at approximately 20:10, crossed the territory of the city and disappeared somewhere in the area of Koltsevo airport.
The program was prepared with the participation of state archive Sverdlovsk region.. UFOs were observed from the Ural Anomalistic Monitoring Station URAN.
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People from the Soviet past don't need it. Songs, jokes. Funny, but good-natured: “Give me that earthenware kitty over there.” - “This, comrade, is not a kitty, but Marshal Budyonny.” In every ceremonial photo of Semyon Mikhailovich, the main thing in the frame is his monumental mustache. “This is the “people’s mustache,” he once said and categorically forbade shaving it off. Reasonable. Since it was a representative mustache, a symbol of the victorious Cavalry and the entire Soviet system, under which a person who came from the bottom could easily become a marshal.
This was a transition period from Marx's beard to Lenin's beard. And then, descending: the mustaches of Budyonny and Gorky, the mustaches of Stalin himself, the mustaches of Voroshilov.
And so on until Khrushchev’s shaved head. Some people were touched by the “people’s mustache”; others were irritated by them. One emigrant who knew the marshal closely claimed that he tinted his mustache, and since the paint was of poor quality, they sometimes turned purple. Stalin's mustache was pulled much more painfully. Remember, from Mandelstam: “Cockroaches laugh with their whiskers.” But these are “intrigues,” and the Soviet government placed Budyonny’s headset in a museum. And rightly so - this is a sign of the era.
Budyonny the myth and Budyonny the original, however, have many differences. Moreover, reading the real biography of the marshal, it is difficult to understand why he turned left and not right. And not a proletarian from the Putilov factory, and not an intellectual who firmly believed in Marxism. He was born on the Don, but not a Cossack, but from out-of-town peasants. But, it seems, he really wanted to be a Cossack, so he not only loved horses like a peasant, but became a wonderful rider and was excellent with a saber.
Since 1903 in the army. Participated in the Russo-Japanese War as part of the Don Cossack regiment, and after compulsory service he remained for long-term service.
Glory rushed ahead of Budyonny and worried him, who did not like the situation in the Cavalry: too much there resembled Makhnovshchina. And popularity acted like intoxication on the army commander. And God knows how it could have ended. So Lenin wrote in one of his telegrams: “Do not make Budyonny a legendary hero and do not praise him as a person in the press,<…>because it has a very detrimental effect on him."
Things were really bad with discipline in Budyonny’s army.
What Joseph Babel wrote about in his famous “Cavalry”, and even more in detail in his diaries, is true. excellent, but when they reached the wine warehouse, they usually got very drunk and robbed. But this is a common thing for the Civil War. In addition, the convoys rarely keep up with the cavalry going into the breakthrough. And it is difficult to separate forced requisitions from plunder in war. In addition, with the commissars, who were obliged to at least somehow ensure discipline, the situation was worst in the cavalry. Communist proletarians and communist intellectuals did not stay in the saddle well and usually left the race after the first transition.
What he was very lucky about was that at the very beginning of his post-revolutionary career he encountered a situation near Tsaritsyn. And made a good impression on him. Rubaka is noble, but not a politician. And he doesn't want to be. Some biographers believe that this is a property of Budennov’s character, others see a calculation here.
Well, if it’s character, then it’s happy, and if it’s calculation, then it’s correct.
The marshal calmly survived the Khrushchev periods, and he had a good time under Brezhnev. Like everyone else in Stalin’s circle, sometimes he had to cave in and sign another death warrant. Of the five first marshals of the USSR, only Budyonny and Voroshilov survived.
And Tukhachevsky, Egorov and Blucher turned out to be, as we know, “spies.” So Semyon Mikhailovich demanded on the podium: “Execute the scoundrels!” And it doesn’t seem like my conscience was tormenting me. Neither then nor later.
The role of the marshal in the Great Patriotic War is small. And yet, here too he entered history.
In July - September 1941, he was the commander-in-chief of the troops in the southwestern direction, where he drank the bitterness of defeat to the bottom. However, it is worth noting that this not very competent strategist was the first to see the danger of the formation of a Kyiv cauldron and had the courage to propose to Stalin to withdraw his troops. They didn't listen. And in August 1941, of course, not on his own initiative, Budyonny blew up the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station, as a result of which many people died: both the Germans and ours. Finally, it was Budyonny who commanded the famous parade on November 7, 1941 on Red Square. The rest of the time, and until his death, he was, in fact, in reserve and was mainly engaged in his favorite horse breeding. Budyonny received all three stars of the Hero of the Soviet Union later in connection with various anniversaries. For past merits.
He lived a long time - 90 years, almost a century. They buried him near the Kremlin wall, but without any pomp or public grief. And this happens if a person has experienced his glory.
Judging by the memoirs, Semyon Mikhailovich’s favorite horse, also a long-liver, cried the most - a stallion of his own, Budennovsky, breed - Sophist.
So they say: while the marshal was dying, tears flowed from his eyes like a stream.
I believe. If the poet is right that “each of us is a horse in his own way,” then the horse, probably, in his own way, is a person.
Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny - legendary marshal, Red Army soldier, commander of the Cavalry. In culture and history he is known not only as a talented military leader, but also as the owner of a monumental mustache, which became the center of his image.
The main detail of the image
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Over time, Budyonny’s mustache became a national treasure - jokes and funny ditties were invented about them, and legends were composed. This detail became the main one in the whole image: people first of all paid attention to the lush vegetation above the upper lip, which the people strongly associated with the marshal, three times Hero of the Soviet Union.
Semyon Mikhailovich preferred a sloppy mustache - that was his highlight. They were thick, long, covered almost the entire upper lip and did not have clear contours. A contrast was created with the neat “chevron” of Joseph Stalin: the generalissimo wore only well-groomed hair.
In appearance, Budyonny’s mustache resembles a Hungarian one. This is a heavily overgrown walrus shape that does not have clear boundaries or shape. The hairs stick out and don't need to be styled. by special means or comb your hair regularly.
Semyon Mikhailovich appeared with a mustache in early photographs, but before the Civil War they were not so thick, had pointed tips and were reminiscent of English ones in shape. But with the manifestation of the commander’s talent and remarkable courage, the mustache became thicker.
There is no exact reason in history as to why Budyonny grew lush hair above his lip, but there are folk legends.
The marshal was naturally distinguished by kind eyes and a soft expression on his face - with such an appearance it would not have been easy to become commander-in-chief. To command respect from his fellow soldiers, the man grew a bushy mustache, which he wore only when he was flying. The tips extended beyond the cheeks, which is why the image turned out to be so recognizable.
Semyon Mikhailovich is a charismatic and straightforward person. He was ready to defend his ideals with his saber drawn: he could argue fiercely with Joseph Stalin, for which he was never even threatened with a reprimand.
There was an opinion among the people that Budyonny grew a mustache because he was a Don Cossack, and this was an obligatory feature of representatives of the Cossacks. But this version remains only a legend: although Budyonny was from the Rostov region, his family was never counted among the Cossacks. He went back to poor peasants from other cities.
Also, his supposed kinship with the Cossacks was indicated by the marshal’s incredible ability to ride and fight. However, the legendary commander was able to develop all these skills directly during his military service.
Despite his not very wealthy childhood, Semyon Mikhailovich was able to achieve success in the mainstream of military affairs. The mustache became his calling card and the most recognizable part of his image.
There were legends about them
The phenomenon of Budenov's mustache is an interesting moment from the history of the twentieth century, which throughout the marshal's life and after his death remained a hero of folk legends. This detail of the image was very much loved by the citizens - it was difficult to find such an original and charismatic commander.
The luxurious hair above his upper lip suited Budyonny - it became an integral feature of his tough character and reflected determination not only in battle, but also in life.
Budyonnovsky's style became the hero of jokes, and his mustache became a national treasure.
- Vegetation that Stalin respected.
After the end of the Great Patriotic War, Budyonny began to get tired of his mustache - he no longer participated in battles, he no longer needed to be respected among his fellow soldiers. Understanding and realizing his authority, Semyon Mikhailovich knew that even without his Hungarian mustache he would remain a legend.
Budyonny decides to shave off his hair, but at the last moment he is repulsed by Stalin’s decisive ban. Joseph Vissarionovich said that this mustache no longer belongs to the marshal, it is the people’s. So the red commander was left with his calling card.
- Gray mustache
During the battles on the Crimean Peninsula, the Marshal of the Cavalry needed to check captured cartridges. He brought a cigarette to one of them, the gunpowder flared up and singed the tip of his mustache. Because of this, he remained gray forever. To hide this flaw, the marshal regularly tinted them.
- I shaved my brother myself.
At the height of the Civil War, his brother served in the First Cavalry Army under the leadership of Semyon Budyonny. He also decided to grow luxurious hair, like the marshal’s, which he really didn’t like. Semyon himself cut off the ends of his sleeping brother's mustache - There should only be one Budyonny, no doubles.
- I argued with a portrait artist.
Nikolai Meshkov, a famous artist, had the honorable mission to paint a portrait of Budyonny. But in the process, he and the marshal had disagreements due to the fact that he could not depict the mustache as the red commander saw it. After much debate, Meshkov still managed to draw them in such a way that they suited Semyon Mikhailovich.
- Museum exhibit.
Budyonny’s mustache also found its place in the museum of the First Cavalry Army. The earpiece that the marshal personally gave them in 1979 is still kept there.
Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny - legendary historical figure, the influence of which on national history difficult to overestimate. His Hungarian mustache - business card which became important detail a courageous image and, according to Stalin, a national treasure.
Fate gave the commander of the First Cavalry Army, Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny, 90 years of life. But even in his youth, the holder of 38 domestic and foreign awards, marshal and three times Hero of the USSR, Honorary Citizen of Rostov-on-Don managed to become a legend.
It is not surprising that an avenue in the center of the Don capital, a village in the Rostov region and dozens of other cities, villages and villages throughout the post-Soviet space bear his name.
On the military leader’s birthday, AiF on Don tells about the myths and truths in his life.
Semyon Budyonny is not a Cossack
Semyon was born on the Kozyurin farm of the village of Platovskaya, Salsky district of the Don Army Region (now Proletarsky district of the Rostov region) into a poor peasant family. His parents were “out-of-towners,” that is, not Cossacks, but residents who moved to the Don in search of a better life central Russia who worked as laborers for the local rich.
Maybe Semyon learned to ride a horse before he could walk. But this does not give the right to classify him as a Cossack family. So the lines from the pioneer song “Don Cossack Semyon Budyonny is marching for Lenin’s cause” became simply a beautiful image, far from the truth.
Service to the Tsar and the Fatherland
But Budyonny was truly a dashing rider. Having been drafted into the dragoons, young Semyon soon found himself on Russian-Japanese war, where he proved himself and established himself as the best cavalryman of the regiment. For which he was awarded a referral to study at the cavalry school in St. Petersburg.
Commanders of the First Cavalry Army at the Field Headquarters of the Red Army, 1920. Semyon Budyonny is on the far right in the top row. Photo: Commons.wikimedia.org
Patronized educational institution Emperor Nicholas II himself, so the cadets performed guard duty in the royal palace.
Later, the marshal told the children in confidence how he shook hands with the autocrat of All Rus'.
Semyon Budyonny met the First World War with the rank of non-commissioned officer. After the first skirmishes with the Germans, people started talking about the brave dragoon as a hero.
In November 1914, at the head of a reconnaissance platoon, he and his comrades recaptured a convoy from German machine gunners, for which he received his first cross.
One feat followed another: a scout-dragoon committed sabotage behind enemy lines and destroyed enemy batteries. Soon Budyonny was already a complete gentleman St. George's Cross.
"Red Murat"
In the summer of 1917, thanks to his peasant origin and respect among the soldiers, Semyon Mikhailovich became chairman of the regimental committee.
In February 1918, Budyonny created his own small cavalry detachment, joining the regiment of Boris Dumenko. A year later he already commanded an entire cavalry army.
For his rapid career rise and remarkable leadership talent, foreign military historians will call Budyonny the “red Murat.” After all, it was his First Cavalry that turned out to be the most combat-ready army of the young workers' and peasants' republic of the Soviets.
In the spring of 1920, Semyon Budyonny’s regiments defeated Denikin’s cavalry to smithereens, and a year and a half later, soldiers in pointed cloth hats, similar to the helmets of epic Russian heroes, put Wrangel’s last forces to flight near Perekop.
Later, a word derived from the marshal’s surname - “Budenovka” - would be used to refer to the headdresses of Red Army soldiers, which were originally called heroes.
Mustaches fly
A simple disposition, not typical of high ranks, a brave appearance, a luxurious mustache - all this made Semyon Mikhailovich a people's hero.
Marshal of the Soviet Union Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny, 1943 Photo: Commons.wikimedia.org
There were legends about Budyonny's mustache. It is known that he released them while still serving in the dragoon regiment. And during the Civil War, so the story goes, he almost burned himself while checking captured cartridges (whether they were smokeless or not). He brought a cigarette to them, and the gunpowder flared up and singed one mustache, which turned gray.
Then, according to legend, Budyonny decided to shave his mustache, but Stalin (in another version - Mikhail Frunze) did not give it: “This, Semyon, is not your mustache, but the people’s...”.
"Leave this fool alone"
In 1935, Semyon Budyonny became one of the first five military leaders who were awarded a new title - Marshal of the Soviet Union. Soon there were only two of them left: “purges” began in the army - arrests and executions. There is a legend according to which the “black funnel” came to Budyonny.
According to one version, the marshal met the night guests with a saber drawn and shouting “Who’s first!?” According to another, he put a machine gun out the window. Having dispersed the prison team, he rushed to call Comrade Stalin: “Joseph, counter-revolution! They've come to arrest me! I won’t give up alive!”
After this, Stalin allegedly gave the command to leave Budyonny alone: “This old fool is not dangerous.” However, these are only legends, and how everything really happened is unknown.
Married three times
Budyonny was married three times. He married his first wife, Nadezhda Ivanovna, a Cossack woman from a neighboring village, in 1903. During the Civil War, she served with him and was in charge of supplies in the medical unit.
She died in 1924 from an accident - due to careless handling of weapons. Everything happened in front of witnesses, but rumors were widespread that Budyonny shot (or hacked) her to death during an argument.
Budyonny's second wife, Olga Stefanovna Mikhailova, was an opera singer for 20 years younger than husband. She led a hectic life with numerous novels and visits to foreign embassies, which attracted close attention NKVD. She was arrested in 1937 on charges of espionage and attempting to poison the marshal; during the investigation she gave numerous testimonies against her husband.
Sentenced first to the camps and then to exile, she was released in 1956 with the active assistance of Budyonny himself.
The first five marshals of the USSR (from left to right): Tukhachevsky, Voroshilov, Egorov (sitting), Budyonny and Blucher (standing) Photo: Commons.wikimedia.org
For the third time the marshal married cousin the arrested second wife through the mediation of his own mother-in-law.
The third marriage turned out to be happy and with many children, unlike the previous childless ones. Semyon Mikhailovich became a father when he was already well over fifty.
Billiards and horses
Periodically, the legendary marshal came to Rostov-on-Don. They say that he especially liked to play billiards at the District Officers' House.
However, another passion brought him to the Don. Having retired from army affairs, the marshal took up what he had dreamed of from a young age - breeding horses.
Thanks to him, three stud farms appeared on the Don and a new breed was bred - the Budennovskaya, which is considered ideal for sports.
Over the past half century, golden-red stallions have shown excellent results in Olympic Games and world championships in show jumping and dressage thanks to unsurpassed endurance, swiftness, fearlessness and perseverance.
If you believe the testimony of his contemporaries, the same qualities were inherent in Semyon Budyonny himself.
Photo: Vadim Nekrasov/globallookpress
On this day in 1935, the first conferment of the title of Marshal of the Soviet Union took place. It was awarded to military leaders Kliment Voroshilov, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Semyon Budyonny, Alexander Egorov and Vasily Blyukher
The fate of the three marshals turned out to be tragic
The fate of three of the first marshals was quite tragic. Tukhachevsky and Egorov were convicted during the period of repression. They were stripped of all military ranks and shot.
And only in the middle of the last century was he rehabilitated and reinstated in rank posthumously. Vasily Blucher died in prison before the trial and was not stripped of his marshal rank.
During the Great Patriotic War the title of Marshal of the Soviet Union becomes not so much an official title as an honorary one; it is awarded to front commanders “individually” for specific operations (Zhukov and Vasilevsky - for Stalingrad operation, Govorov - for the breakthrough on the Karelian Isthmus).
During the war, Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov was the first to receive it in January 1943. That year, Alexander Mikhailovich Vasilevsky and Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin also became marshals. The rest of the wartime marshals received higher education military rank in 1944, then it was assigned to Ivan Stepanovich Konev, Leonid Aleksandrovich Govorov, Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky, Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky, Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin and Kirill Afanasyevich Meretskov.
Subsequently, the title of Marshal of the Soviet Union is awarded primarily to high ranks Ministry of Defense and Warsaw Pact Organization, Commander of the Armed Forces.
Marshal Voroshilov with many children
On the eve of the fatal operation, Mikhail Frunze asked Kliment Efremovich: if he dies, then let Voroshilov take part in raising his children. But soon a double grief happened: a few days after the death of the marshal, his wife committed suicide.
Voroshilov was a crazy father who adored children. Photo: Russian Look/Globallookpress
It is worth noting that by this time the Voroshilov family already had three adopted children. And where there are three children, two more are not a hindrance. Soon Timur and Tanya Frunze moved into the house. According to the children's recollections, Voroshilov was a crazy father who adored children. When his sons grew up, they followed in his footsteps - they became military men.
Marshal Tukhachevsky loved music all his life
Mikhail Tukhachevsky carried his love for music throughout his life. This was largely facilitated by the fact that the marshal was friends with Dmitry Shostakovich. The composer visited Mikhail Nikolaevich very often.
In the mid-1930s, when Soviet criticism attacked Shostakovich's opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Tukhachevsky personally came to the musician's defense. By the way, the marshal met his wife to the sounds of a waltz. They first met at a ball at the gymnasium. The romance that broke out has stood the test of time. There were battles of the First World War, and Time of Troubles Civil War. The wife also had to go through all the hardships with her husband.
Marshal Budyonny and the people's mustache
There is a story according to which one night a “black funnel” came to Budyonny. The marshal met the armed night guests with a sword drawn. He rushed at them shouting: “Well, who’s first?!”
The uninvited guests hastened to leave. And when Lavrentiy Beria began to report on why it was imperative to arrest Budyonny, Stalin reacted like this: “Well done, Semyon! That’s how we need them!”
They also say that unknown people came for Budyonny. They opened fire. Budyonny defended himself, and then, seizing a second, scored Stalin.
“They came to arrest me!” he shouted into the phone. “I won’t surrender alive!”
They say that after this call a command was given to leave Budyonny alone with the following wording: “This old fool is not dangerous.”
The marshal's mustache became a national treasure. Photo: Russian Look/Globallookpress
There is also one more story connected with the marshal. There were battles for Crimea. Budyonny checked the captured cartridges. And in order to understand whether they were “smokeless or not,” he decided to bring a cigarette to them.
The gunpowder ignited instantly. And one mustache was singed, which immediately turned gray.
When the marshal wanted to shave his mustache, he was told: “Don’t you dare, this is Semyon, not your mustache, but the people’s...”
Fictional biography of Marshal Egorov
On January 22, 1938, speaking to Soviet military leaders, Joseph Stalin said: “Let’s take at least such a fact as the awarding of the title of Marshals of the Soviet Union. It is known that we have five Marshals of the Soviet Union. Of them, Egorov deserved this title least of all... Egorov is a native from an officer family, a former colonel - he came to us from another camp and, relative to the listed comrades, had less right to be awarded the rank of marshal, nevertheless, for his services Civil War We awarded this title, why should he be offended, why is he not popular, why is the country not promoting him?”
Egorov heard more in this speech than was said. Namely, some kind of warning for careless steps. It should be noted that the marshal spent his entire life creating myths around himself, which historians then dealt with with great difficulty. And he did this for this reason: his real pre-revolutionary biography would have become an obstacle to military career in Soviet Russia.
For example, in his autobiography he wrote that he came from a poor family and began to sympathize with the revolutionary movement in his youth. And allegedly in 1904 he joined the Social Revolutionaries, for which he was expelled from the army. Be that as it may, his military exploits could not be ignored. For example, it was he who inflicted a number of decisive defeats on Denikin’s army.
They said about Yegorov: “He is, of course, a bad communist. But he is an excellent commander.”
Marshal Blucher was taken to the morgue twice
Vasily Blucher had a chance to fight for the Tsar and the Fatherland on the fronts of the First World War. But on January 8, 1915, on the Dunajec River near Ternopil, the war ended for Private Blucher.
A grenade exploded next to him. He received serious wounds - in the shoulders and legs. In an unconscious state, the future marshal was taken to an army field hospital. There a doctor pored over him and removed eight large fragments. Once he was considered dead and taken to the morgue.
Imagine the surprise when he woke up. Blucher was transported to the ward. He seemed to be on the mend, but then his health worsened again. “Now for sure,” the doctor waved his hand. And Blucher was sent to the morgue a second time.
Once he was considered dead and taken to the morgue. Photo: screenshot from Twitter/@imdt1
But he pulled out, again pretty much frightening all the doctors.
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