157 fiskal [kamornyi fiskal), a vicefiskal {vice fiskal), and an inspektor of weights and measures {inspektor nad meroiu i vesy).~~ In 1718, the entire staff of the katner-kollegiia was calculated at eightyone, of which positions twenty-six were reserved for foreigners, while the other fifty-five were to be manned by Russians. The foreigners were distributed evenly among the various offices of the college, an arrangement designed to guarantee that there would be someone to explain and teach the new administrative routines to the Russian personnel in each part of the organizational structure. The foreign employees of the colleges, then, had been summoned into Russian service specifically because their admlnlstrative experience in various European states would enable them to facilitate the launching of the new Russian administration. Once one has eliminated the staffs of the statskontoret and räntekammaren (bursary), there were ninety-five employees in the Swedish kammarkollegium in 1715,”*^ thus giving the Swedish college the larger staff. But, as one could except, the proposed number of positions for the Russian kamer-kollegiia proved to be insufficient, and already by 1718 the number of Russians in the college had risen from fifty-five to sixty-one, bringing the total staff up to eighty-seven.'*^ In 1718, the budget for the personnel of the kamer-kollegiia was set at 23,729 rubles. As mentioned earlier, the salaries of the foreign members of the staff were set according to the Swedish salary scale, which meant there was a considerable difference between the salaries of Russians and foreigners in the same category of service. The salary of a foreign counclllor in the college, for example, was set at 1,200 rubles a year, while a Russian with the same title earned 800 rubles, or only two-thirds as much.®® Once the kamer-kollegiia had gotten into the swing of actual operations, the number of employees increased considerably. A personnel budget drawn up in 1720 showed an increase to one hundred fifty-eight persons, and the college argued that it needed to Increase its staff by another seventy above and beyond this figure.®' Altogether, then, the college felt it could employ two hundred twenty-eight individuals in administrative capacities. In spite of the fact that the number of employees had increased markedly, the budget for 1720 called for less total salary expenditure for the one RA, Statskontorets arkiv, Huv'udkontorct, Personalstat 1715; TsGADA, f. 248 tlelo 42 1. 16v. ** RA, Statskontorets arkiv. Huvudarkivet, Personalstat 1715. ■» TsGADA, f. 248 delo 42 1. 271 v. Ibid., loc.cit. TsGADA, f. 248 delo 606 11. 200—201v. HO
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