90 the ukaz stated specifically that “he is charged with urging the college presidents in Our name that they eventually organize everything in such a manner that they can really begin their activities in an orderly manner [starting with] the coming year. It is understandable that Pick was given such extensive authority in viewof the fact that he was the only person in St. Petersburg with detailed knowledge of the Swedish colleges. Nonetheless, at the time of the tsar’s departure for Moscow General Bruce was still primarily responsible for the setting up of the colleges. But when Bruce was sent to Finland in January 1718 to negotiate a peace settlement with the Swedes, Heinrich Pick was charged with the task of heading the reform activities on his In an ukaz issued on January 21, 1718, at Preobrazhenskoe, just ” 203 204 own. outside Moscow, Peter instructed the presidents of the colleges to obtain materials and information concerning the manner in which they were to organize their colleges from Pick, “who has brought them with him from Sweden.” Pick tackled his assignment with impressive energy. On the basis of the Swedish personnel and salary budget for 1715, he drew up proposals for personnel budgets for the Russian colleges.^®® He also drafted a series of memoranda concerning Swedish administrative institutions, and, according to Stefan Kochius, the secretary of the kamer-kollegiia, he had already submitted a description of the Swedish kammarkollegium to the Senate in November 1717.-®^ The tsar himself took an active part in the establishment of the colleges after his return from Moscow. Golikov tells us that Peter issued an ukaz concerning the areas of competence of the colleges on April 12, 1718, and that he spent a few hours each day working on ordinances and instructions for the central administration.-®® At the end of April, the tsar instructed the Senate to see to it that all administrative organs, both central and local, provided the colleges with the accounts and other records necessary to their operations. Materials gathered by Pick were used in the colleges as the basis upon which to organize the new administrative organs and procedures. On 209 ZA (no. 266), 221. S. M. Solov’ev, Istoriia Rossii s drevneishikh vremen, edited by L. V. Cherepnin (15 V., Moscow, 1959—1966), IX, 192—193. In the end, Bruce refused the assignment to participate in the administrative reform in May 1718; Miliukov (1905), 440. ZA (no. 267), 221. The Swedish personnel budget Pick took with him to St. Petersburg is deposited in TsGADA, f. 248 delo 58 11. 99—154. -»■ Ibid., 1. 78. Golikov (1790—1797), XII, 47, 59. -«» ZA (no. 268), 221. 205 206
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