# Andrey Toshev

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{{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](/source/Boris_III_of_Bulgaria)
| predecessor         = [Pencho Zlatev](/source/Pencho_Zlatev)
| successor           = [Georgi Kyoseivanov](/source/Georgi_Kyoseivanov)
| birth_date          = 16 April 1867
| birth_place         = [Stara Zagora](/source/Stara_Zagora), [Ottoman Empire](/source/Ottoman_Empire)
| death_date          = {{death date and age |1944|1|10|1867|4|16|df=y}}
| death_place         = [Sofia](/source/Sofia), [Bulgaria](/source/Kingdom_of_Bulgaria)
| party               = Non-Party
| profession          = [Diplomat](/source/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](/source/Prime_Minister_of_Bulgaria) in 1935. He was also a Bulgarian scientist and a diplomat. Toshev was a professor of [botany](/source/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](/source/Boris_III_of_Bulgaria), Toshev was chosen for his unflinching loyalty in the uncertainty following the counter coup by Boris loyalists against the government of [Zveno](/source/Zveno) that had assumed power in a [coup](/source/Bulgarian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat_of_1934) 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](/source/Damyan_Velchev) had slipped back into the country — presumably with the intention of conspiring against the king — and Toshev was replaced by [Georgi Kyoseivanov](/source/Georgi_Kyoseivanov).<ref name=Crampton />

Toshev also served in diplomatic roles as the [Bulgarian ambassador](/source/List_of_diplomatic_missions_of_Bulgaria) to the [Principality of Montenegro](/source/Principality_of_Montenegro) (1905-1906), to [Greece](/source/Greece) (1906-1908), to [Serbia](/source/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](/source/Balkan_League).{{citation needed|date=April 2016}} 

He was also as the Bulgarian ambassador to [Ottoman Empire](/source/Ottoman_Empire) in Constantinople from 1913 to 1914 and instrumental in negotiating the [Treaty of Constantinople](/source/Treaty_of_Constantinople_(1913)).<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](/source/Austria-Hungary) (1917-1919), and [Austria](/source/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==
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<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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