[2] The marriage never materialized, as Constantine Dukas was forced to become a monk in 1081 and died in same year before they could be married.
In 1089, Anna lead an embassy to Byzantium with the purpose of selecting a new metropolitan in Rus'.
[3] Her intended Byzantine marriage not having been realized, she remained unmarried, and instead founded a convent for women named Ianchinii.
[3] She organized the school herself, selecting the teachers, preceptresses, requirements and curriculum, offering "writhing, needlework and other useful crafts", such as rhetoric and singing.
[3] Her innovation introduced the Byzantine tradition of education for upper class women in Kievan Rus', and during the 12th and 13th centuries, convent schools became common in Kievan Rus', founded and managed by princesses, noblewomen and abbesses, and many aristocratic and clerical women became literate and educated in Greek and Latin, philosophy and mathematics and several nuns and abbesses noted writers.