St. Anna (14), Grand-princess of Russia, Feb. 10, and, with her son St. Vladimir, Oct. 4 (Ingardas, Ingebiorg, Ingigerda, Irene). She was daughter of Olaf Skoetkonung, king of Sweden, who gave her for dowry the town of Aldeigaburg, or Old Ladoga. She took the name of Irene at her baptism, and that of Anna with the monastic habit, shortly before her death. She was the wife of Yaroslav the Great, son of the first St. Vladimir and father of the second, who, in 1015, succeeded his father as Grand-prince of all the Russias, and reigned from the Baltic to Asia, and to Hungary and Dacia. He was far more enlightened than his predecessors, and than many of his successors for some generations. He caused the Bible to be translated into the Slavonian tongue, and transcribed some copies with his own hand; he founded many schools, but his great glory was the code of laws he enacted. He built the church of St. Sophia, at Kief, one of the oldest in Russia. That of St. Sophia, at Novgorod, was built by the second St. Vladimir; it is the oldest building in Novgorod, and one of the three oldest churches in Russia. In it the founder and his mother, St Anna, lie buried. The date of Anna's death, 1050, is still to be seen on her tomb. She was the first of the Russian princesses to take the religious veil on the approach of death, a custom which afterwards became general. Yaroslav and Anna had six sons, one of whom was St. Vladimir II., and one is said to have married a daughter of Harold Godwinsson of England. Anna had three daughters: Elizabeth, queen of Norway; Anna or Annte, queen of France; and Anastasia, or Agmunda, who married Andrew I., king of Hungary; perhaps also a fourth daughter, Agatha, who married the English Prince Eadward Aethling, and was mother of Edgar Atheling and St. Margaret, queen of Scotland. Yaroslav died in 1054, and was buried at Kief.
These accounts of these Russian princesses are chiefly taken from Karamsin, Histoire de Russie. S. Anna Ingigerda is also mentioned by Mailath, Stammtafel der Arpaden; Martinov, Slav. Calendar; Snorri Sturlusson, Kings of Norway; Neale, Holy Eastern Church.