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'{{Infobox military person | honorific_prefix = | name = Toma Aleksa Dundić | honorific_suffix = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = Aleksa Dundić.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1896|04|13}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1920|07|08|1896|04|13}} | birth_place = [[Grabovac (Šestanovac)|Grabovac]], [[Kingdom of Dalmatia]], [[Austria-Hungary]]<br /><small>(now [[Croatia]])</small> | death_place = Near [[Rovno]], [[Ukrainian People's Republic|Ukraine]] | placeofburial = | placeofburial_label = | placeofburial_coordinates = <!-- {{Coord|LAT|LONG|display=inline,title}} --> | nickname = Oleko (Serbian "Aleksa") | birth_name = Toma Dundić | allegiance = | branch = | serviceyears = 1912–20 | rank = | servicenumber = <!--Do not use data from primary sources such as service records.--> | unit = | commands = | battles = [[First World War]]<br>[[October Revolution]]<br>[[Russian Civil War]]{{KIA}} | battles_label = | awards = [[Order of the Red Banner]] | spouse = <!-- Add spouse if reliably sourced --> | relations = | laterwork = | signature = | website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> | module = }} '''Aleksa Dundić''' or '''Oleko Dundich''' ({{lang-ru|Олеко Дундич}}, originally [[Croats|Croatian]] '''Tomo Dundić''',<ref>http://education.kulichki.net/dic/5j.html</ref> in {{lang-sr|Алекса Дундић}}{{Cref2|a}}) (April 13, 1896 &ndash; July 8, 1920) was a [[Croats|serbian]]<nowiki/>participant in [[Russia]]'s [[October Revolution]]. A popular character in [[Russian literature]] (celebrated for his riding skills and courage), Dundić was honoured with the [[Order of the Red Banner]]. == Biography == === Great Soviet Encyclopedia === According to the [[Great Soviet Encyclopedia]] (1972 ed.), he was born into a peasant family, in Grabovac, Dalmatia (now [[Croatia]]) on April 13, 1896. Dundić was of Croatian extraction.<ref>"Dundich, Toma", in the ''[[Great Soviet Encyclopedia]]'', 3rd edition, Moscow 1972, Volume 8, page 539, column 1605</ref> In 1914 he was recruited as a private in the [[Austro-Hungarian Army]]. During the [[First World War]] of 1914-1918 in May, 1916 Dundić was taken prisoner by Russian troops near [[Lutsk]]. He volunteered to join the First Division of Serbian Volunteer Corps in Russia (Сербский добровольческий корпус). From the middle of 1917, he was a member of the Red Guard (presumably in [[Odessa]]). In March, 1918, he headed a guerrilla squad in the region of [[Bakhmut]] that later joined the Morozov-Donetsk division, which retreated together with the army of K.E. Voroshilov towards [[Volgograd|Tsaritsyn]] in June 1918. He participated in the defence of Tsaritsyn as a member of an international battalion, then with cavalry brigades of Kryuchkovsky and Bulatkin. From 1919, he served in the Special Don Caucasus Division of [[Semyon Budyonny]] (later in the cavalry corps and the First Mounted Army). He was deputy regiment commander, special aide to [[Semyon Budyonny]], commander of mounted division at the headquarters of the First Mounted Army. Dundić took part in numerous battles and he was wounded several times. The legendary courage of Dundić brought him ardent love and popularity among Budyonny's troops. From June 1919 he was the deputy commander of the 36th regiment of the 6th cavalry division. He was killed in battle near Rovno, Ukraine, and awarded the [[Order of the Red Banner]].<ref>"Dundich, Toma", in the ''[[Great Soviet Encyclopedia]]'', 3rd edition, Moscow 1972, Volume 8, page 539, column 1605</ref> === Other sources === According to Zelenin and Sumarokova in 1968, the alleged first biography on Dundić, written by B. V. Agatov in October 1920 (original does not exist), allegedly says that he was born in 1894, in [[Kruševac]], then in the [[Kingdom of Serbia]]. Allegedly, his family were [[Animal husbandry|cattle breeders]]. After finishing [[secondary school]], he left home and entered a mechanical school. He then lived in the [[Americas]] for two years. In 1912-1913, during the [[Balkan Wars]], he was a weapons technician in the Serbian Army. He then served during the First World War, engaging the Austro-German troops, and for his valour shown during the battles on the Danube, he was promoted to second lieutenant. He was wounded twice, and was captured in 1916, the same year he escaped to Russia where he participated in the formation of the Serbian Volunteer Corps. After the February Revolution, he left the Serbian Corps and entered one of the Cossack regiments. After the October Revolution, he sided with the Soviet government and formed and headed an Odessa Red Guard detachment composed of Serb-internationalists. He fought against the Haidamak and cadet bands. He fought in Voronezh on the Don (in 1918), on the Tsaritsyn Front, and was wounded 16 times, then went to the Polish front. He died on July 8, 1920, at Rovno (now Ukraine). However, as Zelenin and Sumarokova declared, Agatov himself did not indicate the source of the accounts relating to Dundić's life prior to joining the First Cavalry, what makes his story quite unreliable in that segment. It might be a mixture of two or more different biographies, melted in one. E.g., if Dundić, as a "Serb" served in the Austrian army in World War I, he would be a national traitor.<ref>Comment by Zelenin and Sumarokova, in Prometei 1968</ref> ==Legacy== In 1958, a joint Yugoslav-Soviet film [[Aleksa Dundić (film)|Aleksa Dundić]] was directed by [[Leonid Lukov]] ({{IMDb title|id=0051345|title=Aleksa Dundić}}). A street in [[Lviv]], Ukraine, was named after him: "Oleko Dundich Street". A street in [[Saint Petersburg|Sankt Petersburg]] (Frunzensky District) was named after him as well (ул. Олеко Дундича). ==Annotations== His given name was Toma Dundić, according to Great Soviet Encyclopedia, Moscow, 1972. "Aleksa" was his nickname, presumably derived from Spanish "Alejo" (presumably acquired in Argentina), later in Russian as "Олеко" (Oleko), and later in Croatian and Serbian as "Aleksa". ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * {{IMDb title|id=0051345|title=Aleksa Dundić}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Dundic, Toma}} [[Category:1896 births]] [[Category:1920 deaths]] [[Category:20th-century Croatian military personnel]] [[Category:Military personnel killed in action]] [[Category:People of the Russian Revolution]] [[Category:People of the Russian Civil War]] [[Category:Serbian soldiers]] [[Category:Serbian communists]] [[Category:Serbian expatriates in Russia]] [[Category:Serbs of Croatia]] [[Category:Bolsheviks]] [[Category:Russian communists]] [[Category:Russian people of Serbian descent]] [[Category:Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner]] [[Category:Austro-Hungarian military personnel of World War I]]'