186 the personnel budget for 1715 has been utilized, since the Russian archival materials show that the Russians used the Swedish personnel budget for that year as a model when establishing the Russian colleges. 2.2. The shtats-kontor-kollcgiia and the statskontoret—A Comparison 2.2.1. Organization and Personnel The shtats-kontor-kollegiia was given the status of an independent administrative unit in the Russian collegial system. The instruktsiia issued to the college stressed that it was equal in rank with the other colleges and that it was not to recognize “any superior authority other than His Majesty and the Ruling Senate. Count I. A. Musin-Pushkin, one of the members of the tsar’s most intimate circle of collaborators, was named president and was given a seat and a vote in the Senate along with the other eight collegial presidents. Musin-Pushkin had previously headed the Monastyrskii prikaz (monastery prikaz), which had been founded in 1701 and which was in charge of the administration of the real estate belonging to the church and the monasThis prikaz was a revival of an administrative organ of the same '• 207 208 teries. name that had been disbanded in 1677; it had much more extensive powers and was part of the absolute monarch’s efforts to deprive the church of its autonomous position and to subordinate it completely to the secular authorities. Moreover, this tendency was made even more evident by the decision to place a secular figure, rather than a church dignitary, at the head of this prikaz. Upon the institution of the colleges, the functions of the Monastyrskii prikaz were assumed by the shtats-kontor-kollegiia and the kamer-kollegiia. The independent position of the shtats-kontor-kollegiia vis-a-vis the kamer-kollegiia was further emphasized by the clear demarcation between their respective responsibilities. While the latter was to see to it that state revenues were collected in a correct manner and on a continual basis, as well as to increase those revenues, the former was to supervise state expenditures and to allocate the funds put at its disposal by preparing an annual budget. The colleges were to cooperate to the extent that their instructions directed them to do so, but otherwise they were not to interfere in each other’s areas of responsibility. A similar situation marked relations between the two corresponding Swedish colleges. Before its elevation as an independent college in 1680, that which was to become the statskontoret had been part of the kammar209 210 ZA (no. 524, article 23), 599. James Cracraft, The Church Reform of Peter the Great (London, 1971), 115—116. B. G. Slitsan, “Reforma tserkovnogo upravleniia,” Ocherki (1954), 373—376. -‘® ZA (no. 416, section 10), 563. i07 208 209
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