135 among the Senate’s three categories: there were fifteen in category I, seven in category II, and only two in category III. The two former prisoners of war who became voting members of colleges were Karl Printzenstiern and Johann Bernhard Muller, an assessor in the revizion-kollegiia. The foreign collegial personnel as of 1720 was distributed among the colleges in the following manner: 38!) Total foreigners by category Chleny by category College IT I III I II III Total Total I College of state revenues .... 8 College of justice College of revenue auditing . . 3 Estimates office College of commerce College of mines and manufactories College of foreign affairs .... 3 College of war . Admiralty college Totals 1 6 3 17 3 0 4 5 3 3 1 0 3 0 9 0 2 1 0 1 2 5 1 0 0 0 1 4 4 8 6 2 0 11 6 0 0 9 4 0 4 0 0 0 6 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 2 4 5 1 0 3 2 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 15 42 14 10 7 2 24 66 64 "/o 21 "/o IS^/o 100"/o As mentioned earlier, foreigners entering Russian service were promised salaries commensurate with European standards and identical to correponding Swedish salaries, which meant that they were to receive much higher pay for their work than did their Russian counterparts. But Russian promises of regular salary payments do not appear to have been kept very well. In this context, Heinrich Pick emerged as a representative of the interests of the foreign personnel, informing the Senate in October 1718 that the decision concerning the payment of salaries made in June of that year had still not been implemented.^**” According to Pick, several of the foreigners already found themselves in extreme economic straits and some even lacked proper dwellings, although such lodgings had been promised them upon their appointments to office. Pick therefore insisted that a new ukaz concerning the payment of salaries be issued and implemented so that the foreign officials “do not leave the service and so that those who are still waiting in Germany do not remain there.” Pick’s efforts brought results, for in November a new decision concerning the payment of salaries was announced and implemented.391 TsGADA, f. 248 delo 654, 11. 128—136, 347. TsGADA, f. 248 delo 42 1. 313. TsGADA, f. 248 delo 605 1. 5; f. 1,451 delo 7 1. 371—371v. Pick reported that he himself had lent a few hundred rubles to men arriving from abroad to assume positions in the colleges; ZA (no. 269), 222. »8» »90 391
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