From Muscovy to Jamestown: Eastern Orthodoxy in the Age of Exploration
This Saturday, May 14, 2016, will mark the four hundred and ninth anniversary of the founding of the first permanent English settlement in... Read More
What Did the Green Spring Plantation Manor House Look Like in the 1600s?
A visitor to the site of Historic Green Spring, five miles west of Colonial Williamsburg, will find mostly an empty field that... Read More
New World Grave of Descendent of Byzantine Emperors
We don’t often think about how the Fall of Orthodox Constantinople in 1453 can be connected to early English colonisation in the New... Read More
Philip Ludwell’s London Neighbor: Benjamin Franklin
Philip Ludwell III lived with his three daughters on Craven Street in London in the 1760s. Their close neighbor was Benjamin Franklin,... Read More
Photos: The Russian Orthodox Church in London in 1738
In 1738, the Russian Orthodox parish in London celebrated services in the tiny upper room of a building in a back alley off... Read More
Colonial Virginia Trade with Muscovy
Early in the reign of Tsar Peter the Great commercial relations were established between Virginia, Maryland, and Russia. From a declaration of... Read More
John Steinbeck’s Connection with Ludwell Ancestral Home in England
The Ludwells came to Virginia in 1660 from Bruton in Somerset, England – the same town from which William Berkeley came to Virginia after being... Read More
The Ludwells’ Green Spring: A Manor House That Royal Governors Could Only Dream About
A newly released animation (see below) created by Roger S. Guernsey, a Williamsburg architect and Friends of Green Spring board member, was... Read More
Ludwell Appointed to Greet Commander of British Forces in New York in 1756
Fort Loudon in Tennessee is one of three in the United States named after Lord Loudoun, who was commander of British forces in... Read More
First Orthodox Liturgy Celebrated at Historic William & Mary Wren Chapel
On Sunday, March 16, at the request of the College of William & Mary’s Orthodox Christian Fellowship, Metropolitan Jonah (Paffhausen; former Archbishop... Read More