266 but, as we pointed out earlier, Pick argued that Stockholm was a worthy example for St. Petersburg to follow. Pick had proposed that an överstäthållarämbcte on the pattern of the office of the governor general of Stockholm should be established in St. Petersburg. Aside from his activities in the palace chancellery and in the Council, according to Pick, the jurisdiction of the överståthållare included the task of exercising “the supreme supervision of the capital city and of the highly respected magistracy, for which reason he goes each Priday to the city hall {Ratusha), where all the councillors are assembled, and each burgomaster reports and presents that which pertains to his office and college, so that he may know the opinion and will of the överståthållare, and without his knowledge the city dares not issue any laws or ordinances.'’ In Stockholm, then, the magistracy was subordinate to the authority of the governor general, and Pick felt that a similar arrangement would be suitable for St. Petersburg, as w-ell. He recommended that “the magistracies in St. Petersburg, Narva, and Viborg shall be under the direction of the governor and (shall) only [conduct] their own justice and administration.” Heinrich Pick was given the task of drawing up a regulation for the magistracy in St. Petersburg, and in April 1720 he submitted to the Senate a proposal patterned after the magistracies of Riga and Stockholm.^”^ This proposal was subjected to a series of editorial modifications, but the fifth and last version served as the basis for the regulations for “the chief magistracy” {Glavnyi magistrat) in St. Petersburg, which was promulgated on January 16, 1721. The Soviet historian la. E. Vodarskii has published a summary comparison of Pick’s text and the revisions made in the Senate, and his study shows that the basic materials for this regulation were taken from Pick’s 198 202 From Pick’s description of the governor generalship of Stockholm of December 4, 1718, it is clear that he had also written and presented to the Senate a description of the administration of Stockholm. His report stated, among other things, that “in the description of the city of Stockholm is shown how well and thoroughly the magistracy and the affairs of the city arc arranged.” TsGADA, f. 9 otdelenic 2 delo 93 1. 193v. Ibid. The Stockholm magistracy was divided into four colleges, each of which was headed by a burgomaster, namely the burgomasters for justice, police, commerce, and the regulation of guilds. TsGADA, f. 248 delo 58 1. 27v. This is also repeated in a proposal for a personnel and salary budget for the administration in St. Petersburg (1. 328v). Ia. E. Vodarskii, "Iz istorii sozdaniia glavnogo magistrata,” in N. V. Ustiugov et al., cds., Voprosy sotsial’no ekonomicheskoi istorii i istochnikovedeniia perioda fcodalizma v Rossii. Sbornik statei k 70-letiiu A. A. Novoscl’skogo fMoscow, 1961), no. 1P8 PSZ, VI, no. 3,708, pp. 291—309.
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