page_title: Russia Row
section_title: Origins
hierarchical_section_title: Russia Row / Origins
caption_attribution_description: English: Seal of the Muscovy Company (alias Russia Company, Russia Trading Company). An English Chartered Company founded in 1555, defunct in 1917. Seal in collection of University Library of Tromsø. Arms: Barry wavy of six argent and azure, over all a ship of three masts in full sail proper, sails, pennants, and ensigns of the first, each charged with a cross gules all between three bezants, a chief or, on a pale between two roses gules seeded or, barbed vert, a lion passant guardant of the fifth (Per Fox-Davies, The Book of Public Arms)[1]. Motto: Refugium Nostrum in Deo Est (Our Refuge is in God)
context_page_description: Russia Row is a street in the City of London that runs between Milk Street and Trump Street on the northern side of the former Honey Lane Market. Russia Court, formerly Robin Hood Court, the home of the Russia Company, was once located on the northern side of the street and the City of London School on the south side. The street is thought to have received its name around 1804, shortly before Russia decided to enter the Napoleonic Wars on the same side as Britain. It was damaged by German bombing during the Second World War and has since been completely rebuilt.
context_section_description: Russia Row was built on land that was formerly on the north side of Honey Lane Market, itself partially on the former site of the parish church, All Hallows Honey Lane, which was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 and not rebuilt. It fell within Cheap Ward and Cripplegate Ward Within.
  Archaeological investigations of a site on the corner of the modern Milk Street and Russia Row by the Museum of London in 1976-7 confirmed documentary sources in suggesting that Russia Row had no medieval predecessor, the site being entirely taken up with buildings before the fire. Roman remains were found including the location of a Roman street that ran roughly north–south under what is now Russia Row.
  Russia Row is joined to Milk Street at its eastern end and also once by Robin Hood Alley which has also been called Robinson's Court, Robin Hood Court and Robin Court. The southern end of the alley was known as Russia Court when the offices of the Russia Company (chartered 1555) were located there.
  Henry Harben writes that the street was first recorded in Lockie's Topography of London in 1810. It is not mentioned, however, on Richard Horwood's 1799 or 1813 maps. Gillian Bebbington dates the street to 1804, the year before Russia decided to enter the Napoleonic Wars on Britain's side and The London Encyclopaedia also connects it to Russia's involvement in the war. It is mentioned in The Times in 1804, in pages extracted from The London Gazette, as the address of T. Pierson and W. Samnion, factors paying dividends in that year.
caption: Seal of the Russia Company, once located in Russia Court.
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