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Boris Skossyreff

1896 - 1989

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Boris Mikhailovich Skossyreff (Russian: Бори́с Миха́йлович Ско́сырев, romanized: Boris Mikhailovich Skosyrev; 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 218,134 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Boris Skossyreff is the 5,605th most popular politician (up from 6,212th in 2019), the 40th most popular biography from Lithuania (up from 44th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Lithuanian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Boris Skossyreff ranks 5,605 out of 15,577. Before him are Verginia, Ordoño III of León, Rudolf I, Duke of Bavaria, Khutulun, At-Ta'i, and John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg. After him are Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf, Alparslan Türkeş, Moktar Ould Daddah, François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, Bardylis, and Shimazu Yoshihiro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Boris Skossyreff ranks 72. Before him are Karl August Wittfogel, Kazimierz Kuratowski, Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Morarji Desai, Heo Jeong, and Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff. After him are Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Mark W. Clark, Salim Ali, Agustín Muñoz Grandes, and Tadj ol-Molouk. Among people deceased in 1989, Boris Skossyreff ranks 71. Before him are Minoru Genda, Franklin J. Schaffner, Leonardo Sciascia, Werner Best, Bernard Blier, and Hans Hartung. After him are Kazimierz Deyna, Victor French, Pérez Prado, Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Gaetano Scirea.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Boris Skossyreff ranks 40 out of 287. Before him are Andrew Schally (1926), Gitanas Nausėda (1964), Wanda Rutkiewicz (1943), Leo Jogiches (1867), Skirgaila (1354), and Jacques Lipchitz (1891). After him are Alexander Berkman (1870), Leopold Godowsky (1870), Augustinas Voldemaras (1883), Aaron Klug (1926), Janusz Radziwiłł (1612), and Jonas Mekas (1922).

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Among POLITICIANS In Lithuania

Among politicians born in Lithuania, Boris Skossyreff ranks 18. Before him are Gabriel Narutowicz (1865), Dalia Grybauskaitė (1956), Sigismund Kęstutaitis (1365), Gitanas Nausėda (1964), Leo Jogiches (1867), and Skirgaila (1354). After him are Augustinas Voldemaras (1883), Janusz Radziwiłł (1612), Birutė (1317), Antanas Merkys (1887), Antoni Radziwiłł (1775), and Jonas Basanavičius (1851).

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