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This post is part of a series of 10 posts about the British Community in Russia. You can read the complete series HERE

• 18th Century births, marriages and deaths are located in either of two venues
  • The National Archives (TNA) (Kew, London)
    • Foreign Office (FO) records FO 378/3-9
    • Misc BMD Abroad 1627-1917 RG43/1
  • The Guildhall Library
• The Anglican churches located in Russia, held under the Diocese of London can be found at the Guildhall Library. These include:
  • Moscow 1825-1962
  • Odessa & South Russia 1883-1918
  • Riga 1806-1918 (now part of Latvia, but the City was previously Russian)
• Consular Correspondence at TNA:
  • St Petersburg 1801-1979 in series FO 181
  • Moscow 1857-1940 in series FO 447
  • Early material 1565-1780 SP 91
  • Foreign Office General Material 1781-1905 FO 65
  • Foreign Office General Material Post 1905 FO 371
  • Shipping at Kronstadt (near St Petersburg) FO 184
  • Wills of British Residents 1817-1866 FO 184
  • Baptismal Registers of the English & American Congregational Church Alexandroffsky, St Petersburg – RG33/146  – The Church was dedicated in 1840 for employees of Alexandroffsky Mechanical works & Thornton Woollen Mills
  • Burials of the German Colony also in RG33/146
• Records of Evacuations from Russia post 1918 Series FO 371 & FO 369 which contains lists of Evacuees and might include descriptions of journeys made by some families or individuals
• Finland Consulate Records FO 511
• Russia was one of the few places prior to 1914 that required traveller’s to have a passport – FO 611

You can read the complete series, of the British Community in Russia HERE