254 The title provincial bailiff was crossed out in the manuscript, since that position had already been listed by Peter under the title of provincial commissary. What the tsar had Intended to add at the end of the list is not known, but it is probable that he had begun to write yet another position with the prefix lant- and stopped when he discovered that his list already contained all the positions mentioned by Pick. The available source materials show that Heinrich Pick played an important role in planning the administrative subdivision of the St. Petersburg guherniia. He drafted a proposal which, for the most part, was adopted by the Senate. With a subdivision of the old guberniia into twelve provinces. Pick proposed the following chief executives and seats of government for the provinces: as in Stockholm, an ober shtat-galter or general guhernator {överståthållare or governor general) should be appointed at St. Petersburg; Viborg, Narva, and Reval should each have a guhernator (governor); and the other provinces, Lukl Velikie, Novgorod, Pskov, Tver’, laroslavl’, Uglich, Kashin, and Poshekhon’e, should each be headed by a landsgevding {landshövding, provincial governor). In the case of Luki Velikie, Pick advised that a military officer should be appointed to that post. The salaries of these twelve officials were listed by Pick according to the Swedish salary budget, which meant that the governor general should receive 1,800 rubles a year, the governors 1,200 rubles each year, and the provincial governors 600 rubles per annum, for a total of 10,200 rubles a year. Special comment is appropriate in regards to Pick’s proposal to make Viborg the seat of a governorship, rather than of a provincial governorship. In a memorandum submitted to the Senate on November 4, 1718, concerning how the administration in the Baltic provinces should be organized under Russian rule. Pick gave the following explanation for Viborg’s position: since the position of these provinces has been altered drastically after their conquest, we cannot retain the Swedish order of things; for the Swedes considered Reval and Narva to be frontier fortresses, while they did not consider Viborg in that light, and therefore only had a lantsgevding there; on the other hand, we shall in future consider Viborg an important frontier post, while Narva shall be given a position in the middle of the conquered towns. Guided by Heinrich Pick’s proposal, the Senate drew up a preliminary plan for the organization of the St. Petersburg guberniia. The capital was to be governed by a governor general, and in the draft proposal it is made very clear that: TsGADA, f. 248 delo 58 1. 329v. Ibid., 1. 26. Ibid.. 1. 322. 15;} l.'i5
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