404 zing the Russian college. This description will be presented in its entirety in order to illustrate the shortcomings of the material received by the Russian college about its Swedish prototype: This kollegiumor konsilium is located at Karlskrona and is headed by an admiral general, who is a royal privy councillor and president; under him he has admirals, vice admirals, and the other flag officers, as well as a Golm maior (Swedish holm-major, author’s note), and the Golm maior is in charge of the naval depot; the admiralty has its own staff of commissaries, secretaries, and a chancellery, and certain properties and incomes have been set aside for its maintenance; and above all they are in charge of the construction of new ships, of materiel, equipment, provisions, and the crews; if the whole fleet puts out to sea, the admiral general shall be with the fleet, but when the command of only a few ships is involved, the vice admiral has command, or, according to the number of vessels, the command is given to another flag officer; in addition, the admiralteiskaia kollegiia is in charge of the boatsmen’s districts (o botsmanskikh rotakh; Swedish batsmansrotar, author’s note) and the land registers for the boatsmen’s homesteads, since they are divided into permanent districts under their captains; since it is impossible to recruit a full complement of native sailors who are sufficiently skilled from the beginning, it is necessary to recruit 1,200 to 2,000 German sailors, and some officers are sent from the admiralty to do this recruiting in Hamburg, Liibeck, Danzig, and other coastal cities. The available source materials provide no detailed information about the development of the internal organizational structure of the Russian admiralteiskaia kollegiia. Given the source materials now available, therefore, it is impossible to determine whether the Swedish amiralitetskollegium actually played any significant role as a model for the Russian college. The only thing one can say with any certainty is that the organizers of the adrniraliteiskaia kollegiia did study the Swedish college at least to a limited extent. A personnel budget drawn up for the admiralteiskaia kollegiia in 1719 shows that the number of foreigners serving in that college was smaller than in any of the other colleges. Aside from the vice president, Admiral Cornelius Cruys, there was only one foreigner in the college at this time, namely an Interpreter by the name of Hamilton.^^ The Russian staff numbered one hundred seventy-five. From whence the Russian staff members were recruited is not indicated by the source materials, but it is likely that a large number of them came from the now defunct admiralty chancellery.'*® As mentioned earlier, F. M. Apraksin was appointed president of the admiralteiskaia kollegiia. Apraksin had been named admiraliteets and governor of Azov in 1700, and in this capacity he had been responsible for the development of both the Azov and Baltic fleets. Ibid., 11. 182v—183v. Ibid., 1. 110; see above, p. 135. TsGADA, f. 248 delo 606 11. 212—212v; see above, p. 397.
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