Her mother, Lyubov Feodorovna, was a laundress. There is a mystery surrounding her fatherhood, however. Since Lyubov was unwed on the day of Anna’s birth, there is no direct confirmation of who her father was. It is rumored that Lyubov had an affair with Lazar Polyakov, a Russian-Jewish banker and entrepreneur, for whom she worked for some time. However, when her mother married her second husband, Matvej Pavlov, he adopted Anna as his own at the age of three.
