134 later he was commissioned as a lieutenant general by Peter I. The fourth of these former prisoners of war, Johann Schmidt, had served as field master of provisions with the Swedish army in Finland. Following his capture in connection with the capitulation of Viborg, Schmidt had entered Russian service in 1716 and had served as a provincial chief accountant in Finland. There were ten individuals in the Senate’s category III, which consisted of officials recruited from among the Swedish prisoners of war. Of these, only three came from Sweden proper; Joachim Richert, the translator in the kamer-kollegiia, came fromSkåne, while Johan Schletterman, a treasury scrivener in the kamer-kollegiia, and Nikolaus Hoffman, a commissary in the revizion-kollegiia, both came fromStockholm. Richert and Hoffman were dealt with above in an earlier context; Schletterman had been a volunteer in the life guards when taken prisoner at Poltava, but, according to his own claims, he had had previous experience of chancellery routines while serving for two years in the central administration in Stockholm. Among the remaining seven prisoners of war in category III, all of whom were of German or Baltic German origin, the Swedish born Karl Printzenstiern, who served as budget commissioner in the shtats-kontorkollegiia, deserves special mention. Printzenstiern had been a major with a Swedish cavalry regiment when he was taken prisoner. After ten years as a prisoner of war, he received a five-year contract with the shtatskontor-kollegiia in 1718.^®^ Adding up the number of foreign officials in the Senate’s three categories, we see that the total number of foreigners in the service of the Russian administrative colleges in 1720 was sixty-six. By way of comparison, it may be pointed out that over seven hundred people were employed in the Russian colleges in 1720,^®*^ so that the foreign personnel constituted less than ten percent of the total. Of the sixty-six foreigners, twenty-four individuals, or somewhat more than one third, were voting members (chleny) of the colleges, while the majority held lesser civil service {sluzhiteli) positions, which did not involve any participation in the decision-making process. The foreign voting members of the colleges were distributed in the following way 386 The Senate’s list included nine names. This number has been corrected to ten, since yet another prisoner of war, Nikolaus Hoffman, obtained a collegial position in August 1720; ibid., 1. 347. Ibid., 1. 99. TsGADA, f. 248 delo 606 11. 197—215. This figure docs not include the large contingent of guards, both officers and soldiers, stationed with the colleges, but only the personnel participating in actual administrative work. 386 388
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