Career
She was from 1859 married to Count Aleksey Uvarov (1818-1885), chairman of the Archaeological Society of Moscow. She conducted large excavations with a focus on Caucasus, and several volumes of Ancient Caucasus was published on her initiative, several of them with her own contributions, among them (Materialy po archeologii Kavkaza). In 1916, she was celebrated by 30 of the most distinguished archaeologists of contemporary Russia.
During the Russian Revolution of 1917, her collections and property was confiscated.
She emigrated to Yugoslavia, where she lived modestly.