Fedor Karzhavin

Fedor or Fyodor Vasilevich Karzhavin (; His findings had based on the naming of one "Karjavina" in a 19th-century extract of the 28 March 1791 minutes from the college faculty's proceedings:

The Society being informed by M. Bellini that the original charter of this College which is lost, was some years past seen by him in the possession of a certain Karjavina, a native of Muscovy, who declared that it was his intention to deposit the same among the archives of St. Petersburg in Russia. Resolved etc.

Evans suggesting that Karzhavin's 1787 departure from Virginia was the more likely instance when Karzhavin may have left with the charter. While Karzhavin may have taken the charter with hopes of selling it, it was not found among his papers. However, a search in Karzhavin's archives failed to turn up any trace of the Charter, hence the possibility it was lost on his way back to his own country or even sold off due to its interesting nature. Additionally, he speculated that that the charter may have been instead taken from the college sometime during the 1781–1782 occupation of Williamsburg and that Bellini – who was responsible for the charter's care as college librarian – was using Karzhavin as a "scapegoat for [Bellini's] own real or imagined delinquency in not properly safeguarding it".

Later life in Russia

Following his time in Virginia, Karzhavin finally reached Russia in 1788.