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Boris Skossyreff

1896 - 1989

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Boris Mikhailovich Skossyreff (Russian: Бори́с Миха́йлович Ско́сырев, romanized: Boris Mikhailovich Skosyrev, pronounced [bɐˈrʲis mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ ˈskosɨrʲɪf]; Catalan: Borís Mikhàilovitx Skóssirev pronounced [boˌɾis .mikˌaj.lo.vit͡ʃ ˈsko.si.ɾef]; 12 June 1896 – 27 February 1989) was a Belarusian adventurer, international swindler and pretender who attempted to seize the monarchy of the Principality of Andorra during the early 1930s, styling himself King Boris I of Andorra. Skossyreff was born in Lithuania to a family of lower nobility from Belarus. Following the outbreak of the 1917 Russian Revolution, Skossyreff was able to seek political asylum in England, where he enlisted in the British army for the end of World War I. This was followed by his work in the British Foreign Office. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Boris Skossyreff has received more than 235,230 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Boris Skossyreff is the 6,269th most popular politician (down from 5,590th in 2019), the 44th most popular biography from Lithuania (down from 40th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Lithuanian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Boris Skossyreff ranks 6,269 out of 19,576. Before him are Muhammad IV of Morocco, Chen Yi, Otto Abetz, Branko Mikulić, Tugay Bey, and Archduke Maximilian Eugen of Austria. After him are Inca Roca, Patrice Talon, Fulk I, Count of Anjou, Antonio Salandra, Zeki Velidi Togan, and Yong Ji.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Boris Skossyreff ranks 79. Before him are Heo Jeong, Henri de Lubac, Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff, Jorge Alessandri, Mark W. Clark, and Fayzulla Khodzhayev. After him are Morarji Desai, Aspasia Manos, Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Ruth Gordon, Mao Dun, and Ludwik Fleck. Among people deceased in 1989, Boris Skossyreff ranks 75. Before him are Luis Carlos Galán, Victor French, R. D. Laing, Minoru Genda, Lucille Ball, and Princess Deokhye. After him are Robert Mapplethorpe, Arseny Tarkovsky, Kateb Yacine, Pérez Prado, Hassan Fathy, and Hans Hartung.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Boris Skossyreff ranks 44 out of 328. Before him are Alexander Berkman (1870), Wanda Rutkiewicz (1943), Wilfrid Voynich (1865), Jonas Mekas (1922), Jacques Lipchitz (1891), and Arvydas Sabonis (1964). After him are Augustinas Voldemaras (1883), Leo Jogiches (1867), Janusz Radziwiłł (1612), Sophia of Lithuania (1371), Birutė (1317), and Bluma Zeigarnik (1900).

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Among POLITICIANS In Lithuania

Among politicians born in Lithuania, Boris Skossyreff ranks 19. Before him are Algirdas Brazauskas (1932), Gabriel Narutowicz (1865), Sigismund Kęstutaitis (1365), Gitanas Nausėda (1964), Skirgaila (1354), and Treniota (1210). After him are Augustinas Voldemaras (1883), Leo Jogiches (1867), Janusz Radziwiłł (1612), Birutė (1317), Jonas Basanavičius (1851), and Krzysztof "Piorun" Radziwiłł (1547).

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