In a letter read aloud by the organisers of the annual 'Silver Boot' awards in Moscow on Sunday, a lawyer for the 29-year-old former spy said Miss Chapman regarded the invitation to attend the ceremony as "insulting" and the idea of accepting such an award "beneath her dignity."
"Your incompetent assessment of our client's activities contradicts the position of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev who gave Anna Chapman a state award, and that of the chairman of the Russian government Vladimir Putin who has spoken in glowing terms of her," he said.
Miss Chapman rose to prominence last summer after she and nine others were deported from the United States as Kremlin agents.
The British government quickly stripped her of a British passport she had as the result of once being married to an Englishman, and since then she has reinvented herself, branching out into politics, TV, banking, business journalism and semi-nude modelling.
Her public relations offensive has been ridiculed as tacky by some commentators however, prompting the award ceremony's organisers to nominate her for the shameless self-promotion category.