360 Table 6. The Budget for the Swedish kommerskolleginm, 1715® Pick’s Budget for the Russian kommerts-kollegiia^' Salaries for Foreigners in Rubles Russians Foreigners Positions President Vice president 2 ^owmcrts-councillors 4 Assessors 4 Commissaries 1 Secretary 1 Prosecutor The president’s secretary 2 Notaries 1 Actuary 2 Assistant secretaries 1 Copyist 1 Scrivener in the prosecutors office 1 Porter 2 Office boys Vice president 2 Councillors a 2 Assessors å 2 Commissaries a 1 Secretary 1 Notary 1 Prosecutor 1 Translator 1 Actuary 1 Assistant secretary President 2 Councillors 2 Assessors 2 Commissaries 1 Secretary I Notary 2,400 1,200 600 400 500 300 300 The president’s secretary 1 Assistant secretary 300 250 200 Totals Sources: a RA, Statskontorets arkiv, Fiuvudarkivet, 1715 års personalstat; b TsGADA, f. 248 delo 42 11. 291—291v; 25 8,800 15 14 Kommerts-kolegium—adminsters all customs duties arising from all types of trade, (administers) manufactories, and adjudicates cases involving merchants, but the money is to be sent to the shtats-kantor via the bursars. From this brief description, we can see that, like its Swedish counterpart, the college was to have responsibility for manufactories. For one reason or another, however, Peter altered the ukaz by striking this task from those assigned to the kommerts-kollegiia and transferring it to the bergkollegiia, which thereafter was called the berg- i manufaktur-kollegiia.^'^ The man named president of the kommerts-kollegiia was Peter Andreevich Tolstoi, who had previously spent a great deal of time abroad, including a stint as ambassador to Turkey. Tolstoi is best known for having enticed Tsarevich Aleksei Petrovich back to Russia and then conducting the trial which resulted in the death of the tsar’s son. Aside from his presidency of the kommerts-kollegiia, Tolstoi was involved in investigations carried out by the Kantseliariia tainykh rozysknykh del, which had originally been set up for the trial of Aleksei Petrovich, but which had lived on as a permanent organ for political trials. In addition, Tolstoi carried out a number of diplomatic missions for the tsar.^' Nothing is known about ZA (no. 265), 220. N. P. Pavlov-Sil’vanskii, Ocherki po russkoi istorii XVIII—XIX vv., Sochineniia (3 V., St. Petersburg, 1909—1910), II, 28—30.
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