Volkov, claimed after Volkov's death that Volkov had told him that Anderson was not Anastasia and that the encounter had moved him to tears, but also that he admitted that he had kissed her hand. Ostrogorsky claimed that he pressed Volkov to account for the hand-kissing, which "he would never have done if someone other than Grand Duchess Anastasia had been standing before him". At which point, according to Ostrogorsky, Volkov said, "I believe that she is the Grand Duchess, but how can the Grand Duchess speak no Russian?" In 1995, DNA tests confirmed that Anderson was not Anastasia, but was instead a Polish woman with a history of mental illness who went missing just before Anderson first appeared in Germany. It is now known that Anastasia was murdered along with the rest of the immediate Imperial family on July 18, 1918, but that she and her brother Alexei were buried in a separate location from the rest, and her body was not located until 2007. Notes References Klier, John; Mingay, Helen (1995). The Quest for Anastasia. London: Smith Gryphon. Kurth, Peter (1983). Anastasia: The Life of Anna Anderson. London: Jonathan Cape. von Nidda, Roland Krug (1958). Commentary in: Anderson, Anna (1958). I, Anastasia: An autobiography with notes by Roland Krug von Nidda translated from the German by Oliver Coburn. London: Michael Joseph. 1859 births 1929 deaths People from Staroyuryevsky District People from Kozlovsky Uyezd Memoirists from the Russian Empire Court of Nicholas II of Russia White Russian emigrants to Denmark