[3] Volkov followed the Tsar's family and household into internal exile following the Russian Revolution of 1917, but was separated from them at Ekaterinburg and imprisoned at Perm.
[1] There, he heard that the Tsar had been murdered by Bolsheviks, though he was unaware that the Tsarina and their children had also been shot.
They were joined by eight other prisoners, including the chambermaid from the house where Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia had lived.
Hendrikova repeated this conversation to her fellow prisoners and made the sign of the cross with her fingers.
[1] Volkov eventually joined other refugees at the White Army headquarters in Omsk[3] and made his escape from Russia through Vladivostok and the Far East.
[1] He later lived in Denmark, where he was highly respected in the émigré community because of his lifelong loyalty to the Romanov family.
[9] The following day, Volkov returned for a third time and expressed his doubts as to her identity, but would not say definitely that Anderson was not Anastasia.
[10] On his final visit the following day, 6 July 1925, Anderson correctly answered some of his questions,[11] and recounted stories of Grand Duchess Anastasia's life before the Revolution that moved Volkov to tears.
[13] Afterwards, in an interview with the Russian-language newspaper Poslednyi Novosti, published in Estonia on 15 January 1926, Volkov denied Anderson was Anastasia, and decried her as an impostor.
[15] 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".