Boris Skossyreff (1896? – 1989) was an adventurer who attempted to seize power in the European state of Andorra during the early 1930s. Russian sources[specify] give his name in Cyrillic as Борис Скосырев, for which the modern English transliteration would be Skosyrev.
Boris Skossyreff (1896? – 1989)是一位苏联冒险家。上世纪30年代他曾经试图夺取欧洲小国安道尔的政权。在俄罗斯的资料中，他的斯拉夫语名字为Борис Скосырев，当代英语音译为Skosyrev。
In January 1919, a Boris Skossyreff - aged 22 and a former translator for the Japanese Military Mission - appeared in Westminster Police Court in London charged with passing fraudulent cheques: the money was eventually paid, by the same person according to the The Times.[verification needed] In December 1933, Skossyreff obtained Andorran citizenship and after some time he presented a plan for administrative reform involving the creation of several offices to which he asked to be appointed himself. He quickly got into trouble, however, and was expelled around May 1934. On July 12 of the same year, he issued a proclamation in Urgell, Spain, declaring himself Boris I, sovereign prince of Andorra and "regent for His Majesty the King of France", and declaring war on the bishop of Urgell (the co-prince of Andorra). On July 20, he was arrested by Spanish authorities and taken first to Barcelona and then on July 23 to Madrid where he was imprisoned until being expelled in November. Spanish authorities who held him in custody noted he carried a Dutch passport which indicated his date of birth as June 12, 1896. He declared himself to be a White Russian émigré, born in Vilnius (then part of Tsarist Russia but present day capital of Lithuania).
1919年一月，时值22岁的Boris Skossyreff与一位前日军代表团翻译官出现在了威斯敏斯特(伦敦市的一个行政区,英国议会所在地) 警署，被指控使用假支票，据泰晤士报报道，这钱最终还是被他偿付了。1933年12月，Skossyreff 获得了安道尔国籍。过了一段时间，他计划了一项包括建立一些自己能够任命自己的事务所的行政改革。他很快遇到了难题，于是在1934年5月被流放了。在同一年的7月12日，他在西班牙Urgell发表声明，宣称他自己为安道尔君主Boris一世，为法兰西国王陛下摄政，同时对Urgell主教（当时另一位安道尔的联合君主）宣战。在7月20日他被西班牙当局逮捕，先被带往巴塞罗那，又在23号被带往马德里监禁，直到11月被驱逐出境。将他拘押的西班牙当局发现他持有一个荷兰护照，护照上写着他生于1896年6月12日。他宣称自己是一位白俄罗斯流亡者，出生在维尔纽斯（苏联的一城市，现今为立陶宛首府）。
This account was somewhat conflicted by the publication "Spain Week by Week", which reported on 1934-07-25 that he was a 38 year old Pole who had been resident "for some years" in Catalonia and Majorca.[1] The account claimed that Skossyreff made his proclamation on July 11, not the day after, and had declared himself "Boris I, Prince of the Valleys of Andorra, Count of Orange and Baron of Skossyreff…sovereign of Andorra and defender of the faith". After pledging his allegiance to the King of France, it reports that he deposed the Consell General de Batlles d'Andorra (Catalan for General Council of Mayors of Andorra), appointed a provisional government, promulgated a constitution and issued a Court Circular before being arrested by the Spaniards.[1]
这个说法与西班牙周刊报道的有点矛盾。1934年7月25日该刊报道了他是一个38岁的波兰人，已经成为加泰罗尼亚(西班牙东北部一地区)和马略卡岛(西班牙东部)居民好多年了。报道声称Skossyreff在7月11日做了声明并宣称了他自己是“boris一世，安道尔君主，奥林奇派伯爵以及Skossyreff男爵和信仰的守护者”，而不是之后的日子。在保证他效忠于法兰西国王之后，报道称，在被西班牙人逮捕之前，他还罢免了安道尔市长常委会，约定了一个临时政府，颁布了一份宪章并发行了一份宫廷公报。
According to some sources,[specify] he died in 1944 while imprisoned in a camp near Perpignan by the Vichy French regime during World War II. However, he survived, and became a ‘special officer’ (Sonderführer, a civilian technician working with the army) on the Eastern Front.
某些资料称，他死于1944年。时正值二战，他被维希法国傀儡政权囚禁在Perpignan旁边一个收容所里。实际上，他活了下来，并且成为了一个东部前线特殊的长官（从事随军文职工作）。
In 1945, he was taken by the Americans, released as not being German or a Nazi, and went to Boppard, where his wife had settled in 1944.[citation needed]
1945年，他被美国人带走，释放在不是德国就是纳粹的地方，又跑到了Boppard。她的妻子就从1944年住在那里。
In 1948, he was arrested in Eisenach, Thuringia (then in Soviet Sector of Germany, afterwards East Germany), tried and sent to Siberia.[citation needed]
1948年，他在Eisenach, Thuringia 被捕，被带往西伯利亚。
He returned to Germany in 1956, with the rest of the surviving German POWs, taking up residence again in Boppard (then in West Germany: he was granted a small state pension.[citation needed]
1956年，他跟其他幸存的德国战俘一起又回到了德国，又在Boppard居住。（当时在西德，他被授予一份政府养老金）
Skossyreff died on February 27, 1989, and was buried in Boppard. (His grave gives his birth year as 1900 – because he could not prove to the authorities when he had been born.)[citation needed]
他死于1989年2月27日，被埋在Boppard。他的墓碑上写着他生于1900年，因为他不能证明他是哪一年出生的。
In some Russian-language publications and websites there are somewhat legendary stories reported as fact, notably claiming that Boris I ruled Andorra for a number of years until 1941 whereupon he was overthrown by Vichy France.[2] This version is not supported by accounts in other languages.[verification needed]
在某些俄语出版物和网站中，有些有点传奇化的故事被当做事实来报道。尤其是声称他统治了安道尔许多年知道1941年他被维希法国推翻。这种说法不被其他语言的报道中支持。
A novel, entitled Boris I, rei d'Andorra (English translation: Boris I, king of Andorra) based on Skossyreff's story was written in 1984 by Catalan author Antoni Morell i Mora.[3] The author dedicated the book to his grandmother, whom he claimed had personally met Skossyreff. The novel was later adapted for the stage by Beth Escuda.[4]
1984年，Catalan作家 Antoni Morell i Mora根据Skossyreff的事迹谢了一本题为Boris I, rei d'Andorra的小说。作者把这本书献给了他的奶奶，他说他奶奶曾经亲身遇到过Skossyreff。这部小说后来又被Beth Escuda改编搬到了舞台。
