256 In summary, then, the old St. Petersburg guberniia was to be governed by an överståthållare/governor general, three governors, one commandant, and nine provincial governors, for a total of fourteen executive officers. This was two more than Pick had proposed, for the Senate had added a provincial governor in Ingria for the Schlusselburg district and another in the district surrounding Luki Velikie.*^^ At the end of this organizational plan, the question was raised as to whether the title landsgevding should be retained in the Russian administrative system or replaced by another designation.^®” Naturally enough this term for designating a provincial governor was eventually replaced by the Russian term “voevoda.” In connection with the formulation of a Table of Ranks, Prince Menshikov, in his position as president of the krigs-kollegiia, urged that the foreign designations for various positions be abandoned. Among other things, he suggested the removal of the term landsgevding for provincial governors, "who are intended to be voevodas” (“kotorye razumeiutsia voevody’’). The second level of the Swedish hierarchy when it came to the local administration, the härad, was given the designation district in Russia. In the beginning of December 1718, the Senate took up the question of how large the districts were to be, or into how many districts each province was to be divided.^®- This question was discussed on the basis of material made available by Pick, but, in his long description of the Swedish local administration. Pick had never mentioned anything about the size of the härad. In his report on the Baltic provinces of November 4, referred to above, however. Pick had noted that it was possible to determine that the size of the districts there was 3,000 peasants. This topic was finally developed in a short memorandum which Pick submitted to the Senate on November 22, 1718.^®"* He reported that the Swedish provincial bailiff {landsfogde) was responsible for collecting taxes from approximately eight hundred to a thousand homesteads. Tax collection areas did not include more homesteads, since the bailiffs had many other duties to performin their districts and needed time to perform them, as well. In spite of the fact that the peasants in Sweden, “as free men, surrender their taxes to the provincial bailiff themselves,” and in spite of the fact that “everything is already standard {reguliarno) in 161 16;{ Ibid., 1. 322v. Ibid., loc.cit. S. M. Troitskii, "Iz istorii sozdaniia tabeli o rangakh,” Istoriia SSSR, no. 1 (1974), 107. Miliukov, 462 note 3. »8^ TsGADA, f. 248 delo 58 1. 27v. Ibid., 11. 32—33. 160
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