• Born: 13 Mar 963, Constantinople
• Married: 988, Khersones, Crimea
• Died: 1011/22

  Research Notes:

Cedrenus records that "filiam…Annæ" was born two days before the death of Emperor Romanos II. The Primary Chronicle names "Anna, sister of Emperors Basil and Constantine", recording her brothers agreement to her marriage to Vladimir on condition that he accepted baptism, and her arrival and marriage at Kherson. An earlier passage in the same source identifies the place as “Kherson, a Greek city”. This suggests that the place in question was the Greek colony of Khersones, west of Sebastopol in Crimea. Zonaras records that "Uladimero ducem [Russorum]" married "sorore Anna" (referring to Basileios and Konstantinos). The marriage marked the start of considerably increased influence for the Greek Orthodox church in Russia, as the new Russian church reported to the Patriarch of Constantinople.

The sources are contradictory regarding the dating of Anna’s death. The Primary Chronicle records the death of Anna wife of Vladimir, dated to [1008/11] from the context. Cedrenus records that "Anna imperatoris sorore" died "in Rossia", adding that her husband had already died, in a passage following the record of events dated to [1022], adding that "Chrysochir quidam Bladimeri cognatus" (not yet identified) sailed for Constantinople after she died but was defeated and killed at Lemnos by "Davido Achridensi Sami præfecto ac Nicephoro Cabasila duce Thessalonicæ". ¹