215 the Swedish salary scales, as did their foreign colleagues in the other colleges. The annual salary costs for the college were calculated at 10,417 rubles, of which 5,300 rubles wxre budgeted for the foreigners and 5,117 rubles were budgeted for the twenty-five Russian staff members. A personnel budget drawn up in 1720 in connection with the Senate’s instructions to all colleges to submit reports as to how far they had gotten in their organizing activities shows that the revizion-kollegiia had built up a staff which, at least in numbers, largely corresponded to that envisioned in the budget of 1718. However, there were great differences in the compositions of the two budgets. Above all, it is possible to ascertain that the majority of the more qualified positions of commissioner and assessor called for in the budget of 1718 remained vacant in 1720 because of the shortage of knowledgeable candidates. Moreover, four Russian councillors had been hired by the college, of whom three, Ivan Buturlin, Aleksei Pleshcheev, and Feodor Naumov, had previously held relatively high military positions; the fourth, Mikhail Shafirov, the brother of the well-known vice chancellor of the kollcgiia inostrannykh del, Petr Shafirov, came to the college from his previous position as an assessor in his brother’s college. Of the thirty-three positions which were filled as of 1720, somewhat more than two-thirds were routine types of office positions. Among the personnel of the college, one can identify five foreigners by name: the vice president, Johann von Schmiden; one assessor, Johann Bernhard Muller; one secretary, Johann Ostervald; and two commissioners, Christian Griill and Nicolaus Hoffman.'^-'^ Muller and Hoffman, who were former Swedish prisoners of war, have been mentioned previously in a different context. Vice President von Schmiden was a Saxon and had previously served in Brandenburg as a privy councillor. Griill, a Livonian, had held an administrative post in Prussia, and Ostervald, who came fromHamburg, had served as secretary to the tsar’s resident at Hamburg for four years. Common to these three foreigners was the fact that each of them had several years of administrative experience. In acordance with his plan that each college should draw up its own instruktsiia on the basis of the comparable Swedish legislative act,^--'* in May 1718 Peter issued an ukaz to the president of the revizion-kollegiia. Prince la. F. Dolgorukii, “concerning the [college’s] writing an instruktsiia on the basis of the Swedish regulation, in points.” The parts of the Swedish instruktion that could not be transferred to Russian conditions were to be 322 324 TsGADA, f. 248 dclo 654 11. 348—349. TsGADA, f. 248 dclo 606 1. 207. TsGADA, f. 248 delo 654 11. 97—97v. XA (no. 49), p. 60. 322 323
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