Explore volumes of birth, marriage, and death records from the Russian Orthodox Church in London. The records also include correspondences, congregational records, and church documents. The majority of the volumes are written in Russian. There are a limited number of English-language records.
Explore volumes of birth, marriage, and death records from the Russian Orthodox Church in London. The records also include correspondences, congregational records, and church documents. The majority of the volumes are written in Russian. There are a limited number of English-language records.
The Russian Orthodox Church records are available as a browse set. You can search the records by the document description such as Births, marriages, deaths, converts, and passports, 1888-1919 or Donations to St Petersburg Guardianship for Poor Clergymen, 1863. You will find numerous correspondences with other church leaders in London, America, Russia, and Japan, as well as documents related to religious doctrine.
The facts found in each volume will depend on the type of record you are viewing. Birth, marriage, and death records will include the individual’s name, event date, and place. Birth and marriage records will also include the names of the individual’s parents.
The original church records are retained by The National Archives, England. The records are held as part of their RG 8 collection, General Register Office: Registers of births, marriages, and deaths surrendered to the non-parochial registers commission of 1857, and other registers and church records.
RG 8/0111: Orthodox Greco-Russian Church: Memorandum Book, 1721-1870
RG 8/0112: Catalogue of library books: Bound Folio Volume, 1831-1843
RG 8/0113: Matters Relating to the Greco-Russian Faith, reported to the Holy Synod, 1782-1874
RG 8/0114: Catalogue de Livres Russes: Bound Volume, 1699-1865
RG 8/0115: Matters Relating to the Greco-Russian Faith, 1807-1865
RG 8/0116: Enquiries Register from 1841 and short Church Chronicle, 1712-1951
RG 8/0117: Book of Holy Consistory, St Petersburg, given to priest of Orthodox Church in London for listing marriages in its church, 6 May 1843
RG 8/0118: Marriage certificates, 48 entries, 1880-1904
RG 8/0119: Marriage certificates, 50 entries, 1905-1915
RG 8/012: Notes on Constantinople Patriarchate after 1856
RG 8/0121: Notes on the visit of the Sovereign Emperor to Moscow, 23-27 Jan 1874, from reports to the Most Eminent the Metropolitan of Moscow, Leonid, Bishop of Dmitrov
RG 8/0122: Opinions of churchmen on moral, educational and economic matters towards introduction of seminaries and church schools, 1840
RG 8/0123: Reports of the Church: births, marriages, and deaths, etc, 1831-1832
RG 8/0124: Reports of the Church: births, marriages, and deaths, etc, 1832
RG 8/0125: Reports of the Church: births, marriages, and deaths, etc, 1833
RG 8/0126: Reports of the Church: births, marriages, and deaths, etc, 1834
RG 8/0127: Reports of the Church: births, marriages, and deaths, etc, 1835
RG 8/0128: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1836
RG 8/0129: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1837
RG 8/0130: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1838
RG 8/0131: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1839
RG 8/0132: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1840
RG 8/0133: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1841
RG 8/0134: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1842
RG 8/0135: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1843
RG 8/0136: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1844
RG 8/0137: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1845
RG 8/0138: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1846
RG 8/0139: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1847
RG 8/0140: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1848
RG 8/0141: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1849
RG 8/0142: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1850
RG 8/0143: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1851
RG 8/0144: Inventory of church property, 1851
RG 8/0145: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1852
RG 8/0146: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1853
RG 8/0147: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1855
RG 8/0148: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1856
RG 8/0149: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1857
RG 8/0150: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1858
RG 8/0151: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1859
RG 8/0152: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1860
RG 8/0153: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1861
RG 8/0154: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1862
RG 8/0155: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1863
RG 8/0156: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1864
RG 8/0157: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1865
RG 8/0158: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1866
RG 8/0159: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1867
RG 8/0160: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1868
RG 8/0161: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1869-1870
RG 8/0162: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1871
RG 8/0163: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1874
RG 8/0164: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1875
RG 8/0165: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1875
RG 8/0166: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1876-1885, and records of service for priests, 1881-1885
RG 8/0167: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1886-1895
RG 8/0168: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1896-1905
RG 8/0169: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1906-1910
RG 8/0170: Annual reports including births, marriages, deaths, etc, 1912-1917
RG 8/0171: Record of service of deacon Ivan Mikhailov Strokovskii, 1913
RG 8/0172: Records of service for various priests and churchmen, 1920-1924
RG 8/0173: Documents and correspondence of Jacob Smirnov on church affairs, 1812-1844
RG 8/0174: Correspondence - Jacob Smirnov with Russian Embassy in London on church repairs, 1813-1838
RG 8/0175: Correspondence - Jacob Smirnov regarding the renting of the church and house in Welbeck Street, 1813-1835
RG 8/0176: 32 Welbeck Street, Marylebone, estimates of work done on house and chapel, 1825-1844
RG 8/0177: 32 Welbeck Street, Marylebone, lease dated 30 June 1835
RG 8/0178: 94 Ukases on church and religious matters, 1835-1877
RG 8/0179: Miscellaneous documents; birth and baptismal certificates; letters on permission to marry or raise children in Russian Orthodox faith etc, 1817-1877
RG 8/0180: Russian prisoners of war in England; lists of prisoners of war; correspondence with the church concerning them, 1854-1857
RG 8/0181L: 32 Welbeck Street, Marylebone, details of repairs prior to commencement of new lease; accounts and correspondence, 1845-1875
RG 8/0182: 32 Welbeck Street, Marylebone: 36 year lease, 1857-1893
RG 8/0183: Correspondence - Letters to Evgeny Ivanovich Popov, from Holy Synod, 1840-1860
RG 8/0184: Correspondence - Letters to Evgeny Ivanovich Popov, miscellaneous, 1854-1869
RG 8/0185: Correspondence - Letters to Evgeny Ivanovich Popov, from A Tolstoi, 1857-1861
RG 8/0186: Correspondence - Letters to Evgeny Ivanovich Popov, from Dimitri Tolstoi, 1865-1869
RG 8/0187: Correspondence - Letters to Evgeny Ivanovich Popov, from Prince S Irusov (Chancery of Holy Synod), 1859-1864
RG 8/0188: Correspondence - Letters to Evgeny Ivanovich Popov, miscellaneous, mostly about new church, 1862-1869
RG 8/0189: Correspondence - Letters to Evgeny Ivanovich Popov, from Empress Maria Aleksandrovna's secretary, 1860-1867
RG 8/0190: Correspondence - Letters to Evgeny Ivanovich Popov, from Economic Council of Holy Synod, 1866-1876
RG 8/0191: Correspondence - Letters to Evgeny Ivanovich Popov, from various British Government ministries, 1852-1865
RG 8/0192: Miscellaneous papers on church matters, including Moscow Metropolitan, 1859-1867
RG 8/0193: Russian Orthodox Church in America and its clergy, 1865
RG 8/0195: Correspondence - Miscellaneous letters to Evgeny Ivanovich Popov, 1843-1873
RG 8/0196: List of communicants, 1866-1867
RG 8/0197: Donations to St Petersburg Guardianship for Poor Clergymen, 1863
RG 8/0198: List of birthdays, namedays and coronations of Russian Royal Family after 1875
RG 8/0199: Various church accounts, 1863-1871
RG 8/0200: Imperial manifesto, 1840-1881
RG 8/0201: Forms of Oath of Allegiance to Tsar Nicholas Alexandrovich, 1825-1855
RG 8/0202: Church expenses, miscellaneous receipts, 1862-1876
RG 8/0203: Miscellaneous documents, 1828-1875
RG 8/0204: Annual statement of Fr Evgeny Smirnov to Department of Economic Affairs and Private Office of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1877-1913
RG 8/0205: Correspondence - Ukases of his Imperial Majesty from the 1st Department of the St Petersburg Religious Consistory sent to Fr Evgeny, 1876-1899
RG 8/0206: Correspondence - Ukases of his Imperial Majesty from the 1st Department of the St Petersburg Religious Consistory sent to Fr Evgeny, 1900-1916
RG 8/0207: Annual reports from Fr Evgeny Smirnov to 1st Department of the St Petersburg Consistory, 1877-1916
RG 8/0208: Correspondence - Ukases of his Imperial Majesty from the 2nd Department of the St Petersburg Religious Consistory, 1877-1917
RG 8/0209: Annual reports from Fr Evgeny Smirnov to 1st Department of the St Petersburg Consistory, 1888-1904
RG 8/0210: Annual reports from Fr Evgeny Smirnov to 2nd Department of the St Petersburg Consistory, 1877-1915
RG 8/0211: Reports to the St Petersburg Council on Military Recruitments dated 1879-1902, with extracts of birth certificates, 1861-1881
RG 8/0212: Russian Embassy to Evgeny Smirnov, 1881-1920
RG 8/0213: Correspondence - Evgeny Smirnov to Russian Embassy, 1877-1921
RG 8/0214: Correspondence with various Russian Consulates, 1899-1918
RG 8/0215: Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society to Evgeny Smirnov, 1894-1924
RG 8/0216: Correspondence - Evgeny Smirnov to Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society, 1909-1914
RG 8/0217: Correspondence - Russian Red Cross to Evgeny Smirnov, 1898-1924
RG 8/0218: Correspondence - Evgeny Smirnov to Russian Red Cross, 1904-1921
RG 8/0219: Correspondence - Imperial Society for the Blind to Evgeny Smirnov, 1884-1917
RG 8/0220: Correspondence - Evgeny Smirnov to Imperial Society for the Blind, 1897-1916
RG 8/0222: Correspondence - Evgeny Smirnov to Vladimir Metropolitan of St Petersburg, 1913-1916
RG 8/0223: Correspondence - Metropolitan of St Petersburg to Evgeny Smirnov, 1897-1911
RG 8/0224: Correspondence - with various religious academies, mostly in St Petersburg, 1879-1916
RG 8/0225: Correspondence - with Her Majesty Olga Konstantinovna's secretary, 1889-1894
RG 8/0226: Correspondence - Ukases of his Imperial Majesty from the Holy Synod, 1880-1908
RG 8/0227: Annual reports from Fr Evgeny Smirnov to the Holy Synod, 1881-1912
RG 8/0228: Correspondence - Evgeny Smirnov to the Economic Council of the Holy Synod, 1890-1913
RG 8/0229: Correspondence - Economic Council of the Holy Synod to Evgeny Smirnov 1890-1910
RG 8/0230: Correspondence - Office of the Ober-Procurator of the Holy Synod to Evgeny Smirnov, 1893-1912
RG 8/0231: Correspondence - various Russian government departments to Evgeny Smirnov, 1886-1916
RG 8/0232: Correspondence - Evgeny Smirnov to the Director of the Chancery of the Chief Procurator of the Holy Synod, 1883-1911
RG 8/0233: Correspondence - Evgeny Smirnov to Vladimir Karlovich Sabler, the Fellow Minister of the Chief Procurator and to the Holy Synod, 1892-1914
RG 8/0234: Correspondence - Evgeny Smirnov with Office of Imperial Catherine Hospital in Moscow, 1879
RG 8/0235: Correspondence - Chancery of the Empress Maria Fedorovna to Evgeny Smirnov, 1914-1915
RG 8/0236: Correspondence - Secretary of the Empress Maria Fedorovna to Evgeny Smirnov, 1904-1905
RG 8/0237: Correspondence - Evgeny Smirnov to Fr Vladimir, Bishop of the Russian Church in San Francisco, California, 1891-1897
RG 8/0238: Inventory of church articles and vestments contributed in 1879 by Russian Orthodox Church in London to Orthodox Churches in Bulgaria, 1879-1880
RG 8/0240: List of persons who took Oath of Allegiance to Emperor Alexander III, 1881
RG 8/0241: Various documents on Fr Nicholas, Orthodox Bishop of USA, 1894
RG 8/0242: Correspondence - Evgeny Smirnov to Nicholas, Archbishop of Japan, 1907-1908
RG 8/0243: Correspondence - Nicholas, Archbishop of Japan to Evgeny Smirnov, 1894-1908
RG 8/0244: Correspondence - Russian Ecclesiastical Consistory of Alaska to Evgeny Smirnov, 1894-1895
RG 8/0245: Correspondence - Evgeny Smirnov with North American Ecclesiastical Consistory, 1907
RG 8/0246: Correspondence - Evgeny Smirnov with New York Orthodox Church, 1896
RG 8/0247: Correspondence - Evgeny Smirnov with Russian Orthodox Theological Seminary, Minneapolis, 1908
RG 8/0248: Correspondence - Evgeny Smirnov with Nicholas, Syrian Greek Orthodox Church in New York, 1912
RG 8/0249: Correspondence - Evgeny Smirnov to Russian Orthodox Brotherhood in New York, 1896
RG 8/0250: Correspondence - Evgeny Smirnov with Archbishop Platon of New York, 1910
RG 8/0251: Correspondence - Evgeny Smirnov to Evdokim, Archbishop of Aleutian Islands & North America, 1916
RG 8/0252: Correspondence - Evgeny Smirnov with Tikhon, Archbishop of Yaroslavl and Rostov, 1900-1911
RG 8/0253: Correspondence - Evgeny Smirnov, three letters to various churchmen, 1897-1907
RG 8/0254: Correspondence - Evgeny Smirnov with Vladimir, Bishop of Kronstadt, 1907-1909
RG 8/0255: Correspondence - Evgeny Smirnov with Sergei Dmitrievich Sazanov, 1905-1919
RG 8/0257: Correspondence - Evgeny Smirnov to Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev, 1886-1890
RG 8/0258: Correspondence - Evgeny Smirnov to Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev, 1891-1895
RG 8/0259: Correspondence - Evgeny Smirnov to Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev, 1896-1900
RG 8/0260: Correspondence - Evgeny Smirnov to Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev, 1901-1905
RG 8/0261: Correspondence - Notations on passports of marriages, births and deaths of Russians in London, 1878-1921
RG 8/0262: Records of births, marriages, deaths, and communicants, 1877-1884
RG 8/0263: Records of births, marriages, deaths, and communicants, 1885-1894
RG 8/0264: Records of births, marriages, deaths, and communicants, 1895-1899
RG 8/0265: Records of births, marriages, deaths, and communicants, 1900-1904
RG 8/0266: Records of births, marriages, deaths, and communicants, 1905-1909
RG 8/0267: Records of births, marriages, deaths, and communicants, 1910-1914
RG 8/0268: Records of births, marriages, deaths, and communicants, 1915-1919
RG 8/0269: Records of births, marriages, deaths, and communicants, 1921
RG 8/0270: Record of revenues with receipts, 1914-1919
RG 8/0271: Record of church expenses, 1914-1919
RG 8/0272: Correspondence - Evgeny Smirnov, miscellaneous correspondence, 1877-1899
RG 8/0273: Correspondence - Evgeny Smirnov, miscellaneous correspondence, 1900-1910
RG 8/0274: Correspondence - Evgeny Smirnov, miscellaneous correspondence, 1897-1921
RG 8/0275: Correspondence - with Ivan Alekseevich Zheverzhev, 1900-1905
RG 8/0276: Correspondence - with Russian Relief Committee, Western Bank, 1921
RG 8/0277: Correspondence - with Russian Government Committee in London, 1916-1918
RG 8/0278: Diocesan administration of Russian Orthodox Churches in Europe 1921-1925
RG 8/0279: Births, marriages, deaths, converts, and passports, 1852-1884
RG 8/0280: Births, marriages, deaths, converts, and passports, 1835-1890
RG 8/0281: Births, marriages, deaths, converts, and passports, 1835-1917
RG 8/0282: Births, marriages, deaths, converts, and passports, 1850-1904
RG 8/0283: Births, marriages, deaths, converts, and passports, 1857-1908
RG 8/0284: Births, marriages, deaths, converts, and passports, 1872-1911
RG 8/0285: Births, marriages, deaths, converts, and passports, 1878-1914
RG 8/0286: Births, marriages, deaths, converts, and passports, 1880-1924
RG 8/0287: Births, marriages, deaths, converts, and passports, 1889-1918
RG 8/0288: Births, marriages, deaths, converts, and passports, 1888-1919
RG 8/0289: Births, marriages, deaths, converts, and passports, 1901-1920
RG 8/0290: Births, marriages, deaths, converts, and passports, 1877-1921
RG 8/0291: Births, marriages, deaths, converts, and passports, 1891-1923
RG 8/0292: Miscellaneous documents, 1898-1927
RG 8/0293: Births, marriages, deaths and converts, with other miscellaneous documents, 1881-1927
RG 8/0295: Protocols of the parish councils, 1919-1920
RG 8/0296: Protocols of the parish councils, 1920-1922
RG 8/0297: Account book, 1920-1925, and miscellaneous documents, 1920-1926
RG 8/0298: Miscellaneous documents, mainly accounts and correspondence, 1920-1927
RG 8/0299: Parish registers of Russian Orthodox Church in London: A-K, 1927
RG 8/0300: Parish registers of Russian Orthodox Church in London: L-Z, 1927
RG 8/0301: Inventory of church property, 1915, and list of gifts, 1878-1915
RG 8/0302: Births, marriages, and, deaths, 1901-1905
RG 8/0303: Births, marriages, and, deaths, 1906-1910
RG 8/0304: Births, marriages, and, deaths, 1911-1916