{{Short description|Bulgarian scientist, politician and diplomat}} {{Infobox Prime Minister | name = Andrey Toshev | native_name = {{nobold|Андрей Тошев}} | image = Andrey Toshev.png | order = 26th | office = Prime Minister of Bulgaria | term_start = 21 April 1935 | term_end = 23 November 1935 | monarch = Boris III | predecessor = Pencho Zlatev | successor = Georgi Kyoseivanov | birth_date = 16 April 1867 | birth_place = Stara Zagora, Ottoman Empire | death_date = {{death date and age |1944|1|10|1867|4|16|df=y}} | death_place = Sofia, Bulgaria | party = Non-Party | profession = Diplomat | caption = Toshev in 1930 | native_name_lang = bg }} '''Andrey Slavov Toshev''' ({{langx|bg|Андрей Славов Тошев}}; 16 April 1867 &ndash; 10 January 1944) was Prime Minister of Bulgaria in 1935. He was also a Bulgarian scientist and a diplomat. Toshev was a professor of botany.<ref>{{Cite EB1922 |wstitle=Bulgaria |volume = 30 |last= Grogan |first= Elinor Flora Bosworth Smith }}</ref><ref>Pashanko Dimitroff, ''King of Mercy: Boris III of Bulgaria, 1894-1943'', Wexford and Barrow, 1993, p. 157</ref>

Appointed by Tsar Boris III, Toshev was chosen for his unflinching loyalty in the uncertainty following the counter coup by Boris loyalists against the government of Zveno that had assumed power in a coup the previous year. He headed a purely civilian cabinet after a period of military rule and was, in effect, a puppet of the Tsar.<ref>S.G. Evans, ''A Short History of Bulgaria'', London, Lawrence and Wishart, 1960, p. 173</ref> Indeed, at 68 years of age, the Premiership was Toshev's first major political role.<ref>Charles A. Moser, ''Dimitrov of Bulgaria: A Political Biography of Dr. Georgi M. Dimitrov'', Caroline House, 1979, p. 112</ref> His task was to contain the military, work on the constitution, and to construct a new popular movement.<ref name=Crampton /> His Premiership proved short-lived since he made no progress on any of those fronts by November. At that time, it was discovered that Damyan Velchev had slipped back into the country — presumably with the intention of conspiring against the king — and Toshev was replaced by Georgi Kyoseivanov.<ref name=Crampton />

Toshev also served in diplomatic roles as the Bulgarian ambassador to the Principality of Montenegro (1905-1906), to Greece (1906-1908), to Serbia from 1909 to 1913,<ref>Frederick B. Chary, ''The History of Bulgaria'', ABC-CLIO, 2011, p. 78</ref> in which capacity he helped bring about the formation of the Balkan League.{{citation needed|date=April 2016}}

He was also as the Bulgarian ambassador to Ottoman Empire in Constantinople from 1913 to 1914 and instrumental in negotiating the Treaty of Constantinople.<ref>Richard C. Hall, ''The Balkan Wars 1912-1913: Prelude to the First World War'', Routledge, 2002, p. 125</ref>

He was then in Switzerland (1915-1916), in Austria-Hungary (1917-1919), and Austria in 1919 after World War 1.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.desant.net/show-news/51191 |language=bg |title=Andrey Toshev becomes Prime Minister in one of the difficult periods of our history}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=Crampton>{{cite book|last=Crampton|first=R.J.|title=A Concise History of BULGARIA|url=https://archive.org/details/concisehistorybu00cram|url-access=limited|date=2005|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=New York|page=[https://archive.org/details/concisehistorybu00cram/page/n184 161]}}</ref> }}

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