391 consultations other privy councillors {tainye sovetniki) are summoned, so then of them, the chancellery councillors, one, or according to the number of affairs, two, shall be present.” Still further parallels between Pick’s report and the instruktsiia for the kollegiia inostrannykh del can be identified. In the introduction to his report. Pick pointed out that: in [this college] two or three state ministers had the leadership, of whom the eldest was president. Their assessors consisted of chancellery councillors and royal secretaries. It is interesting that Pick gave the royal secretaries the status of assessors here, a title, moreover, that was only used by the kanslikollegium in the antiquities archives.-’* The royal secretaries, or state secretaries, as they were also called, were included as assessors on the board of the kanslikollegiumy'^ These secretaries thus had a special position in comparison with the ordinary collegial secretaries, who were not members of their respective college boards. This portion of Pick’s report reappeared in the instruktsiia for the kollegiia inostrannykh del in the following context:"^ But when only the chancellor of the realm and the vice chancellor are present in the college of foreign affairs in order to decide public affairs, then they, chancellery councillors and assessors, are to sit at the same table as them, and sign everything that is decided in that assembly, since even they are responsible for the maintenance of the chancellery, because in the Swedish chancellery college the assessors are chancellery councillors and royal secretaries. The italicized clause was added by the president of the kollegiia inostrannykh del, G. I. Golovkin. The instruktsiia called for three secretaries of assessor’s rank, or socalled sekretari assesory. Here, too, Stepanov noted:"** “In Sweden, as according to His Tsarist Majesty’s gracious consent, there shall be four men in the college.” As was the case in the Swedish kanslikollegium, the number of ekspeditsiia secretaries {sekretari ekspeditsii) in the kollegiia inostrannykh del was set at four.^" In the Swedish collegial administration, the kanslikollegiumhad a leading position vis-a-vis the other administrative organs, since it prepared matters for presentation to the council government and thus claimed the 50 lA (no. 409), 531. ZA (no. 414), 542. See the personnel budget for the Swedish kanslikollegium for 1714 in RA, Kanslikollegium, serie F: IX 3, Stater 1700—1719. Munthe, 103. -■' ZA (no. 409), 531. Ibid., loc.cit. TsGADA, f. 248 delo 606 1. 197.
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