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Boris Skossyreff

1896 - 1989

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Boris Mikhailovich Skossyreff (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. He moved to the Netherlands in the mid-1920s, where he was in a list of Prominent Foreign Revolutionaries in 1924, prepared by the General Intelligence and Security Service, in which he was noted as an international swindler. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Boris Skossyreff is the 4,986th most popular politician (up from 6,268th in 2019), the 36th most popular biography from Lithuania (up from 44th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Lithuanian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Boris Skossyreff ranks 4,986 out of 19,576. Before him are Susenyos I, Alexander II of Macedon, Suryavarman II, Theudis, Sophia, and John II of Jerusalem. After him are Tarpeia, Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy, Walter Mondale, Countess Palatine Maria Franziska of Sulzbach, Lucius Antonius Saturninus, and Prithviraj Chauhan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Boris Skossyreff ranks 58. Before him are Mamie Eisenhower, Ida Noddack, David Wechsler, Gottlob Berger, Soghomon Tehlirian, and André Masson. After him are Dimitri Mitropoulos, Heo Jeong, Julien Duvivier, Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse, Elsa Triolet, and Kazimierz Kuratowski. Among people deceased in 1989, Boris Skossyreff ranks 56. Before him are Guy Williams, Irving Stone, Jerzy Kukuczka, Valentin Glushko, Irving Berlin, and John Payne. After him are Graham Chapman, Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz, Franklin J. Schaffner, A. J. Ayer, Rashid Behbudov, and R. D. Laing.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Boris Skossyreff ranks 36 out of 328. Before him are Jan Karol Chodkiewicz (1560), Gabriel Narutowicz (1865), Gitanas Nausėda (1964), Andrew Schally (1926), Wanda Rutkiewicz (1943), and Sigismund Kęstutaitis (1365). After him are Treniota (1210), Andrius Kubilius (1956), Skirgaila (1354), Moshe Arens (1925), Isaac Levitan (1860), and Alexander Berkman (1870).

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Among POLITICIANS In Lithuania

Among politicians born in Lithuania, Boris Skossyreff ranks 17. Before him are Algirdas Brazauskas (1932), Vytautas Landsbergis (1932), Hacı I Giray (1397), Gabriel Narutowicz (1865), Gitanas Nausėda (1964), and Sigismund Kęstutaitis (1365). After him are Treniota (1210), Andrius Kubilius (1956), Skirgaila (1354), Birutė (1317), Leo Jogiches (1867), and Augustinas Voldemaras (1883).

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