419 cerning the organization of the Russian collegial administration remain inaccessible in the stacks of TsGADA. Among the materials I was able to use, special mention should be made of a description of Stockholm’s överståthållarämbetet, or governor general’s office, written and submitted by Heinrich Pick in 1718 (fond 9 otdelenie 2 delo 93) and of information about the Swedish prisoners of war who were encouraged to enter the service of the Russian colleges (fond 9 otdelenie 2 delo 37). Fond 1451—Podlinnye imennye vysochaishie ukazy i poveleniia (Actual Ukazes and Orders Issued by the Tsar) This collection is also of central importance to the study of the administrative reforms. The documents found here are usually of a general nature and consist of such things as regulations and instructions which often provide the final version of the relevant legislative acts. I have not had the opportunity to study all of the relevant materials (some twenty-eight volumes) in this collection either, but from the volumes I was able to consult it was possible to conclude that the documents of interest therein have been published in the first volume of N. A. Voskresenskii’s Zakonodatel’nye akty Petra /. Fond 248—The Senate Archives It was the Ruling Senate, established in 1711, that led the practical organization of the administrative reforms. After its reorganization in 1718, the Senate included all of the collegial presidents who had been appointed the year before {ZA, 220, 283). It was here that the proposals of the various colleges for their budgets and instructions were discussed and edited before being sent on to the tsar for his confirmation, but Peter himself often participated in these deliberations. For this reason, the Senate archives contain a great deal of important information about the adaption of the Swedish administrative system to Russian conditions. This collection of documents has largely been neglected by Russian and Soviet historians who have studied the Petrine administrative reforms. My access to it was limited to random volumes, which proved to contain a limited number of, but important and hitherto overlooked, source materials concerning the subject of my investigation. Unfortunately, however, I was unable to consult the minutes and journals of the Senate, which documents contain the only record of the discussions held by that body {ZA, 8). Some volumes in the Senate archives deserve special mention. The collegial budgets drawn up in 1717 and 1718 are to be found in delo 42,
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