29 of the Petrinereforms held by the prerevolutionary Slavophile legal historian. Contributions to our knowledge of the Russian reforms have also been made by historians outside the Soviet Union. A biographical study of Heinrich Pick—the person Peter sent to Stockholm to collect materials about the structure of the Swedish administration—by A. R. Cederberg was published in 1930.^“'* Cederberg got the idea for his book from the discovery of Pick’s personal papers at Oberpahlen, his estate in Estonia. Most of these papers are Swedish ordinances, instructions, and other such materials collected by Pick during his visit to Stockholm. Cederberg included a catalogue of the Pick papers which gives an idea of the extent of the Swedish legislative materials to which the Russians had access. In addition to instructions and personnel budgets for the central and local administrations, there are a large number of economic decrees concerning trade and shipping, copies of the Swedish municipal and national laws, and many other things. By placing these materials in their historical context, Cederberg was able to show in a convincing way that Heinrich Pick played a leading role in the Russian administrative reforms. Cederberg’s study did not, however, shed any significant new light on how the collegial reform was carried out, or on the extent to which the Swedish legal sources were used; instead, his account of these matters was largely a summary of earlier Russian historical writing on the subject. Nor did the author provide any explanation for the Russian reform activity, choosing instead to refrain from taking any position on the question “ob sie diktiert war von der wachsenden Pinanznot Russlands und den ins Grenzlose gehenden Porderungen des absoluten Regimes, why the Russians were so Interested in the Swedish administrative system. Pinally, the Russian reception of Swedish law has been the subject of a special study by Ellinor von Puttkamer published in 1959.^^® On the basis of earlier historical research, she attempted to ascertain the extent to which it was possible to prove Swedish Influence on the Russian reforms. Basically, von Puttkamer’s article is a study of this question regarding the three areas where it has traditionally been claimed that there was A. R. Cederberg, Heinrich Pick. Ein Beitrag zur russischen Geschichte des XVIII. Jahrhunderts (Dorpat/Tartu, 1930). This archival collection is now deposited in the Historical Archives of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic in Tartu. See Gosudarstvennyi Istoricheskii Arkhiv Estonskoi SSR. PutevoditeE (Moscow &: Tartu, 1969), 268. '-® Cederberg, Beilagc 1, 3—64. Cederuerg, 102. Ellinor von Puttkamer, “Einflusse schwedischen Rechts auf die Reformen Peters des Grossen,” Zeitschrift fiir attsländisches öffentliches Recht iind Völkerrecht, 19 (1959), 369—384. 12G Nor did Cederberg express any view as to ” 127
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