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Bilikhodze"s claim was presented at a press conference in Moscow in June 2002. Bilikhodze had begun using the name Grand Duchess Anastasia in 1995. The video of Bilikhodze bringing forward these claims was shown on Russian television in June 2002.
lieutenant was later revealed that the video had been made two years prior to that, and Bilikhodze herself had died in Podolsk and been dead since 2000.
In January 2001, a commission of experts at the Central Clinical Hospital studied tissues from Bilikhodze"s body and concluded that she was not related to the Romanovs.