152 parison is the administrative report that the kammarkollegium, as did the other colleges, presented to Charles XII upon his succession in 1697.^“ This report provides a very thorough description of the college’s various activities during the reign of Charles XI. In addition, information about the college has been gathered from the treasury archives (kammararkivet) at the Swedish National Archives (RA) and from the archives of the kammarkollegium (KKA), itself. The method employed in the analysis of the instructions for the colleges may be described briefly in the following manner. The first step has been to subject each individual section of the Russian instruktsiia to a thorough content analysis, and in some cases to a thorough linguistic analysis, as well. When the contents of the Russian text have been determined, a treatment of the same matters is sought in the Swedish material for each point. On the basis of what has been turned up in this way, the comparative step of the process, the confrontation of the contents of the Russian text with the Swedish materials, has been carried out. That which is decisive for such an analysis, therefore, is not whether there are any formal, linguistic similarities—although those have been sought out, too—but rather whether there are similarities or divergences between the actual content of the Russian instruktsiia and the content of the diverse Swedish materials used in the comparison; it is this that confirms or disproves the stated hypothesis. 1.2. The kamer-kollegiia and the kammarkollegium—A Comparison 1.2.1. Organization and Personnel In terms of organizational structure and the size of its staff, the kammarkollegium was one of the most extensive of the various Swedish administrative organs. The college was divided into a number of units or offices, each of which had specific tasks to perform. The organization of the kammarkollegium, expanded as it was during the course of the seventeenth century as its functions grew, cannot be reconstructed with the help of the various instructions issued to the college. In order to get an idea of the extent of the college’s operations, it is necessary to look at its personnel budget, which reveals in great detail the organizational structure of the college and the makeup of its staff. The personnel budget for the year 1715 has served as the principal source for the following description of the organization and personnel of the kammarkollegium. Svante Rydhenius, ed., Relation til Glorvördigst i åminnelse Konung Carl den Xll.te angående swenska cammarwerket den 5 maj 1697 (Stockholm, 1768), hereafter cited as Relation.
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