248 by Heinrich Fick. In accordance with the tsar’s resolution, he wrote a detailed description of the Swedish local administrative organs, which was at the same time drawn up as a comparison between the Swedish and Russian local administrative systems.^^” Pick described each of the positions in the Swedish local administration from the governor all the way down to the police constables, giving their responsibilities and areas of competence, as well as their Russian counterparts, wherever that was possible. The introduction to Pick’s long report was as follows: In the Russian realm. In Russia there are, according to the appointments, eight guherniiy namely, the SanktPiterburgskaia Moskovskaia Kievskaia Rizhskaia Kazanskaia Azovskaia Arkangelogorodskaia Sibirskaia In these gubemii, governors general and governors and vice governors have been appointed in the administration, some from the highest ranks, others from the tsaredvortsy and high officers. In Sweden, that is, in the Swedish realm. 1. The governors in Sweden are of three kinds, with special ones in the border provinces, such as Estonia, Livonia, Pomerania, and Bremen. In these provinces there were usually governors general, who were usually senators, field marshals, lieutenant field marshals, and in addition they were counts, first because these provinces were very important, and secondly because the communication and cautiousness with the neighboring states demand such high-ranking and experienced governors general. The others are called governors, and these used to be in Skåne and in Ingria, and they were usually generals, lieutenant generals, and barons. Above and beyond these there was a third category, which are called landsgevdingi (or in German landesgaupt hide), who head all the other duchies and provinces in Sweden, and who usually served earlier as major generals or colonels, or as councillors in the kanslikollegium, kammarkollegium, or krigskollegium, and were thereafter created barons. Pick pointed out that no one in Sweden could achieve such a high position unless he had “made himself known for his faithful, kindly, and long service, and ... is usually of an honest, wise, and virtuous mode of living (obkhozhdenie). 130 TsGADA, f. 248 delo 58 11. 1 —16: "A brief description of the following gubernii and of the offices in them and their position in the administration." »31 Ibid., 11. 1—Iv. Ibid., 1. 2. ” 132 132
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