389 General Regulation thus stated that “His Tsarist Majesty has deemed fit to include in his state chancellery college {gosudarstvennaia kantscliarnaia kollegiia) some ministers (even called stats-ministr”),'' and that “for each and every one of these ministers a state secretary {shtats"-sekretär') or a chancellery councillor {kantseliarnyi sovetnik) has been designated. We know that the designation “minister” refers here to the Swedish ombudsråd, for Pick had used it in this way in his description of the kanslikollegiumIn a similar manner, the first personnel budgets for the kollegiia inostrannykh del were drawn up on the model of the personnel budget of the kanslikollegium for 1715, in which budget the ombudsman organization appeared for the first time.'*' Pick had attached a copy of the personnel budget of the kansli-kollegium for 1715 to his long report of April 1718.'*- The ombudsman organization was eventually abandoned by the founders of the Russian college. In the statute establishing the kollegiia inostrannykh del, and in the instructions regulating the responsibilities of the secretaries of the ekspeditsii, both dating from 1720, there emerged instead a personnel organization—consisting of a president or chancellor, a vice president or vice chancellor, chancellery councillors, and secretaries of ekspeditsii—reminiscent of the Swedish kanslikollegium prior to 1714.^^ The kollegiia inostrannykh del was now given an organizational structure based on ekspeditsii for different geographical areas; all matters relating to European states were to be dealt with by the first ekspeditsiia secretary {sekretär’ ekspeditsii), while the second ekspeditsiia secretary was responsible for matters concerning the Oriental states, Poland, and Courland.^* The instruktsiia for the kollegiia inostrannykh del issued in 1722 was, according to Voskresenskii, “drawn up under the strong influence of the Swedish kansliordningen of September 22, 1661.”^'* Voskresenskii did not, however, describe the nature of that influence. A quick comparison of the Swedish kansliordningen and its significantly shorter Russian counterpart reveals that there was certainly no verbatim copying and that the Russian ” 3!) ZA (no. 400), 417. ■"> ZA (no. 414), 544—545. TsGADA, f. 370 dclo 12 11. 93—96. Among the archival documents concerning the personnel and salary budgets for the koltegiia inostrannykh del are also to be found extracts of the budgets of the Hannoverian, Danish, and Polish foreign ministries (11. 97—98), but this material did not leave any traces in the organization of the Russian college. TsGADA, f. 96 (1715 g.) dclo 21 11. 1—4v. For these two documents, sec ZA (nos. 406 fc 407), 520—527. « ZA (no. 407), 523. ZA, 529. Concerning the dating of the instruction, see Belokurov et al. (1902), 44—45.
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