Uvarova was the daughter of Sergey Alexandrovich Scherbatov (1800-1864) and his wife, Princess Praskovya Borisovna Svyatopolk-Chetvertinskaya (1818-1899).

Soon after the wedding, the couple traveled to Rome, Naples and Florence where Uvarova introduced her husband to the splendors of Europe.

In her own words, she had “very often to get to the sites via completely overgrown, little known and inaccessible trails,” “riding around those upland spaces or deaf gorges which lie beyond roads and communications, and which, with rare exceptions, can only be reached on horseback” (Уварова 1894, 2).

In the area of the Tsebelda valley, Uvarova found a group of small medieval churches, often decorated with sculptures.

[3]As a result of her work, several volumes of Ancient Caucasus were published on her initiative, several of them with her own contributions, among them (Materialy po archeologii Kavkaza).