103 Salaries in Rubles Forcigners Russians College Totals Foreigners Russians College of foreign affairs .... 4 College of state revenues . . Estimates office College of justice College of revenue auditing . . 6 College of war Admiralty college College of commerce College of mines and manufactories 602 20,578 11,440 2,656 4,452 3,976 9,269 8,297 2,738 21,180 20,140 6,106 11,502 8,476 10,795 8,427 9,538 87 14 144=' 8,700 3,450 7,050 4,500 1,526 8 37 70='=' 10 27 4 64 1 175 130 12 24 6,800 7,580='='=' 15,380 22 7,800 7 Totals 40,558 =' The salaries of two Russian assessors are not known. Not all of the salaries of the Russian staff are listed. This total includes the president’s salary of 5,616 rubles. The table does not include the guards assigned to the colleges, which consisted of officers and men, but only those who performed administrative tasks. With the exception of the college of mines and manufactories, the table does not include the salaries of the college presidents, since they were not listed in the salary budgets of the colleges. 66 650 70,986 111,544 calculated at 111,544 rubles, or just 6,382 rubles more. This minor increase in salary costs is explained by the fact that the salaries of the Russian personnel in the budgets for 1720 had been reduced, and in some cases even halved, compared with the salaries listed in the budgets submitted in 1718.2«i The very first years of the collegial system had demonstrated that it was impossible to arrange regular payment of the salaries listed in the budgets,-*’- and therefore the colleges pointed out other means for the support of their personnel. When the college of foreign affairs was set up, for example, it was pointed out that “in Sweden these officials regularly receive incomes from their duties in addition to their fixed salaries.” In Russia, on the other hand, the officials had “no regular or extra incomes from their duties aside from His Tsarist Majesty’s annual determined salary,” for which reason it was especially important that those salaries were actually paid out. The “extra incomes” the college referred to here were the so-called perquisites, the accidentier or sportier, which, in certain instances, individual subjects paid college staff members in return for their clerical services.^®^ Certain official functions performed for the benefit of indi- -«■ TsGADA, f. 248 delo 654 11. 179—182; delo 606 11. 197—198, 200—215. This cut in salary had not been decreed by any ukaz, and the background to this measure remains unclear. Cf. above, p. 100 note 253. See p. 174. TsGADA, f. 370 delo 12 1. 96. Ibid., loc. cit. Göran Rystad, “Till frågan om tjänster och löner inom kansliet under frihetstiden,” Historisk tidskrift, 86 (1966), 162—168. 264 282 263 265
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