362 Russians \ Foreigners Position Assessors Secretaries Commissaries Notary Translators Interpreter Actuary Assistant secretaries Junior assistant secretaries . . . . Copyists Porters Totals 2 2 1 1 2 1 1 2 I 1 2 1 2 1 8 4 24 12 Noteworthy here is the fact that more foreigners than Russians were listed as members of the governing board of the kommerts-kollegiia. Of the eight members of the board, five were administrators recruited from abroad. Several nations, including France, Switzerland, England and Scotland, were represented among the twelve foreigners employed by the college, but most of them were Germans.^” Unfortunately, nothing is known about the background of these foreigners, and while the same can be said of most of the Russian administrators in the college, too, it is probable that they were recruited fromthe nowdefunct prikazy. 1.1. The instruktsiia for the kommerts-kollegiia In April of 1718, Peter instructed the president of the kommerts-kollegiia to draw up instructions for its operations on the basis of the corresponding regulations for the Swedish kommerskollegium. The tsar’s ukaz stated that the college should only select from the Swedish instruktion that which was applicable to Russian conditions.-® This same directive had been given to the other colleges, as well. An instruktsiia for the kommerts-kollegiia was approved by the Senate in March 1719.-^ Pavel Miliukov is the only scholar who has attempted, on the basis of a comparative textual analysis, to establish what sources were utilized by the authors of this instruktsiia. The materials he used in his comparison were the instruktion for the Swedish kommerskollegium of 1651, which was available to him in a published collection of Swedish legislative acts, and a proposal for instructions for the Russian college drafted by Baron A. C. P. von Luberas.” Miliukov was not able, however, TsGADA, f. 248 delo 654 11. 109—109v. I. A. Blinov, ed., Opis' dokumentov i del, khraniashcbikhsia v Senatskom arkhive (9 V., St. Petersburg, 1909—1917), I: 1, 35. PSZ, V, no. 3,318, pp. 671—676. Stiernman, II, 669—678; Miliukov, 449—450.
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