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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