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TIL about Boris Skossyreff, an emigre due to the Russian Civil War who started appearing publicly as a monarch after a trip to the Principality of Andorra. With the help of an American millionaire heiress, he seized Andorra in 1934 for several days before being arrested by Spanish authorities.

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