408 legislation for the Swedish and Dutch admiralty colleges, as did Shafirov, was published in 1722 and embraced within itself all the naval legislation of the time. To whatever extent it is possible to say that foreign legislative sources were used in the drafting of the Naval Regulation, it must nevertheless be emphasized that, assuming the method described above was employed in drawing it up, the reglament for the admiralteiskaia kollegiia was an original document.®® There is no doubt but what the tsar considered it an exemplary product when, in May 1722, he ordered that:®^ Regulations in accordance with that of the admiralteiskaia kollegiia are to be drawn up in all the colleges, although terms and names are to be changed where necessary, but the organization (anshtalt) is to be entirely the same in all ways, except that the colleges shall ignore those things that they do not have. The results of the studies in this chapter can be summarized in the following manner. During the introductory phase of the collegial reform, it was determined that the krigs-kollegiia and the admiralteiskaia kollegiia were, like the other colleges, to be patterned after their Swedish counterparts. As for the krigs-kollegiia, we have seen that while its personnel budget was drawn up in comparison with that of the Swedish college, the staffing of the latter was not followed by the Russian organizers. In view of the meagerness of the available sources, and since no instructions were promulgated for the krigs-kollegiia, it is impossible to tell how the operations of that college were envisioned during the early years of its existence. In the case of the admiralteiskaia kollegiia, too, we have seen that the organization and activities of its Swedish counterpart were studied. The extremely fragmentary source materials available for this study do not, however, offer any clear idea of what resulted from this examination of the amiralitetskollegium. One impression is that the Senate did not have access to any comprehensive description of the Swedish admiralty, for which reason it was impossible for it to give the admiralteiskaia kollegiia any firm guidance in the establishment of the collegial organization for Several sources bear witness to Peter's personal interest in the instrukts'iia for the admiralteiskaia kollegiia, pointing out that the tsar met with the legislative commission several times during 1721. See Elagin, 127—139, and M. M. Shcherbatov, ed., Zhurnal Hi podennaia zapiska, blazhennyia i vechnodostoinyia pamiati gostidaria imperatora Petra Velikogo s 1698 (2 v., St. Petersburg, 1770—1772), II, 123. PSZ, VI, no. 4,008, p. 678. See, too, TsGADA, f. 16 delo 178 1. 25, which indicates that the votchinnaia kollegiia, kamer-kollegiia, iustits-kollegiia, berg- i manufakturkollegiia, shtats-kontor-kollegiia, Glavnyi magistrat, and revisions office all submitted proposals to the Senate for instruktsii based on the model of the instruktsiia for the admiralteiskaia kollegiia. It is not clear, however, what became of these proposals. See M. M. Bogoslovskii, Oblastnaia reforma Petra Velikogo (Moscow, 1902), 33—34, who studied the proposal for a new instruktsiia for the kamer-kollegiia in some detail.
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