Drenikoff, Kyril

Biographical Note

• 1930 July 30: Born in Sofia, Bulgaria
• 1943 November 12: Gliding license
• 1948: High school diploma, Institut des Frères des Écoles Chrétiennes, Collège St. St. Cyrille et Méthode, Sofia, Bulgaria
• 1956: Law degree, State University, Sofia, Bulgaria
• 1957 June 5: Diploma in international public law, La Sorbonne, Paris, France
• 1959 March 2: Doctorat en droit international, La Sorbonne, Paris, France
• 1960 - 1965 : In charge of programs in Bulgarian, Radio Vaticana
• 1960 - 1966 : President, Association des Anciens Elèves des Frères des Ecoles Chrétiennes de la Bulgarie
• 1960 March 15: Diploma, Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales, Paris, France
• 1962: Bulgarian delegate to the Central Committee of the Anti-Bolshevik Block of Nations (ABN)
• 1962 June 24: Married Michèle Françoise Bihan-Faou
• 1962 - 1983 : Member, Political Council of Simeon II, King of Bulgaria, and counselor to the King
• 1963: Degree, Hague Academy of International Law (International Law Fund laureate)
• 1965 - 1984 : Chancellor of the Royal Bulgarian orders and decorations
• 1967 - 1968 : State Counselor of Biafra
• 1968: Author, L'église catholique en Bulgarie Author (under the pseudonym of Strachimir Belphegoroff), La mort mystérieuse d'un roi
• 1970: Founder (with Ivan Drenikoff) and director, Centre de Recherches et de Documentation Balkaniques, Brussels, Belgium
• 1970 - 1983 : Permanent Bulgarian representative to the World Anti-Communist League (WACL), and member of its council
• 1972 October 4: Allowed to use the name Kyril Drenikoff de Velboudj
• 1975 February 9: Became French citizen, and allowed to use the name Cyrille Drenec
• 1978 - 1980 : President, Ligue Bulgare des Droits de l'Homme
• 1981: Author, Bulgarska literatura v izgnanie
• 1982: Author, Bibliografi'i'a za Makedoni'i'a
• 1983 December 22: Died in Brussels, Belgium

From the guide to the Kyril Drenikoff papers, 1849-2002, (Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace)