[1] Olenina was the youngest daughter of State Secretary Alexei Nikolayevich Olenin and his wife Elizaveta Markovna.

They started developing a romantic relationship in May 1827, when Pushkin returned from his seven-year exile and frequently visited the Olenins in St. Petersburg and at the Prijutino country estate.

In 1829, Pushkin asked for Anna's hand in marriage, but received a resolute refusal from her mother.

In 1850, Olenina asked Emperor Nicholas I to allow her husband to bear the title of count and his father's name, which was refused because of insufficient documents.

[5] After the death of her husband in Warsaw in 1885, Olenina settled in the Derashne country estate of her youngest daughter, Countess Antonina Fyodorovna Uvarowa in the Volhynia Governorate.