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Boris Skossyreff
Boris Mikhailovich Skossyreff 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.
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politics · Belarusian adventurer and self-declared King of Andorra (1896–1989) · military personnel · military officer · monarch · usurper · diplomat · also Boris Skossyreff, Boris I, king of Andorra, Boris Mikhailovich Skossyreff, Skossyreff
Born 12 January 1896 · Died 27 February 1989 · Q176731
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2003· 1 entry
Editors Juliet Love i Jilian O'Brien (in English)
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1989· 1 entry
Died 1989-02-27.
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1956· 1 entry
Returned to Boppard and died there in 1989
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1938· 1 entry
The French authorities allowed him to return to Aix-en-Provence
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1936· 1 entry
Where he was arrested again in Saint-Cannat
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1934· 1 entry
Career landmark: king (1934–1934).
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1932· 1 entry
Skossyreff registered "Boris de Skossyreff: import - export, representation" in Santa Marta, Colombia
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1925· 1 entry
And moved to the Netherlands, where he later claimed to have worked in the Dutch Royal Household, and to have been rewarded by Wilhelmina of the Netherlands with the title of "Count of Orange" – a title normally reserved
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1924· 2 entries
Prepared by the General Intelligence and Security Service, in which he was listed as an "international swindler"
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Prepared by the General Intelligence and Security Service, in which he was noted as an international swindler
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1896· 1 entry
Born 1896-01-12.
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