393 Finally, there was a good deal of continuity between the personnel of the newly established kollegiia inostrannykh del and that of its forerunner, the Posol'skii prikaz, or PosoPskaia kollegiia, as it was subsequently called. The president and vice president of the college, G. I. Golovkin and P. P. Safirov, had both served in the PosoPskii prikaz and had been appointed chancellor and vice-chancellor of that prikaz by Peter in 1709.®^ Of the two chancellery councillors, A. Österman and V. Stepanov, the former had been a translator and the latter a secretary in the PosoPskii prikaz. Even the secretaries of assessor’s rank, P. Kurbatov, M. Shafirov, and M. Larionov, had previously served in the prikaz.*^- It is probable that this continuity of personnel came to influence the work of the kollegiia inostrannykh del, and that office routines followed in the PosoPskii prikaz were carried over to the new college. Given the character of the available source materials, however, it has not been possible to determine whether this happened, and, if so, to what extent it happened. The evidence presented in this chapter must be considered sufficient proof that the Swedish kanslikollegium served as a direct model for the Russian kollegiia inostrannykh del. During the early stages of the reform it was possible to discern the contours of a direct Russian copy of the kanslikollegium, but this Swedish model was abandoned during the process of organizing the college, or at least it was abandoned to the extent that the projected responsibilities of the college were divided between the Senate and the kollegiia inostrannykh del. Belokurov, 115, 129. TsGADA, f. 370 dclo 12 1. 95; ZA (no. 409), 530—531; Belokurov, 130.
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