118 models for the General Regulation, since no one has ever subjected it to source critical analysis. For this reason, then, this study cannot present a detailed analysis of the genesis of the General Regulation. Any such study would require a separate investigation and another book; only a few comments will be presented here. On the basis of his research in Soviet archives, Voskresenskii was able to show that the General Regulation went through twelve editoral revisions before its final adoption in the published form. The fact that each of the twelve editions has been published in the ZakonodateVnye akty enables us to followthe evolution of this legislative document step by step. Seven of the twelve editions contain resolutions, additions, and/or corrections made in the text by Peter himself.^-” Among the other officials participating in the drafting of this legislation were Heinrich Pick, the chief secretaries of the Senate, A. S. Shchukin and I. D. Pozniakov, the secretary of the kollegiia inostrannykh del, I. P. Veselovskii, and Peter’s private secretary, A. V. Makarov.^'^^ As for the provenance of the General Regulation, Voskresenskii stated that “the original draft . . . was put together by Heinrich Pick, who made use of the Swedish source—the Cantselie Ordningh {kansliordningen) of September 22, 1661—and borrowed norms from it in order to establish bureaucratic office routines in the Russian administrative organs.” While Voskresenskii did not indicate any direct sources for these statements, the fact that the words “Translation, The First” {Perevod, Pervyi) appear on the draft of the first edition of the General Regulation lends support to his interpretation.^*^ In its first version, the General Regulation was a translation from what was probably a German original, the author of which must have been Heinrich Pick. We know that Pick wrote a long “addition” (pripolnenie general’nogo reglementa) during the legislative process, and that this “addition” was included in the regulation after having been edited by the tsar.^*^ In addition to this evidence, the first edition of the General Regulation reveals a level of systematic thinking and a richness of detail which it is hard to imagine emanating at that time fromanyone but Pick. Nor is it impossible that Voskresenskii was right when he wrote that the Swedish kansliordningen of 1661 was used as a model in the drafting of the General Regulation. The kansliordningen was a comprehensive piece of legislation granting legal sanction to the administrative practices that ZA, 411—412. Ibid., loc.cit. ZA, 412. 323 2^1, 411. 32' ZA (no. 400), 472—477.
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