Saint Anna was born in 1880 in the village of Shcherbinino, Kolomensky district of Moscow province, into a peasant family. After receiving primary education, in 1895 she entered as a novice in a monastery of the Kostroma diocese, and in 1901 she transferred to the Reshemsky Makaryevsky Monastery. She labored there until 1902, and then returned to her homeland. She was a member of the church council of the Pokrovskaya Church in the village of Chirkino.
On February 12, 1938, she was arrested and interrogated. During the interrogation, she denied any anti-Soviet agitation, asserting that all authority is from God. On February 21, the NKVD Troika sentenced her to execution for 'counter-revolutionary activity'.
On February 26, 1938, Anna Korneyeva and the members of the church council were executed and buried in a common unmarked grave at the Butovo shooting range. She was canonized among the ranks of the New Martyrs of Russia by the decision of the Holy Synod on December 26, 2001, for public veneration.
