64 the kammarkollegium and established as an independent college in 1695, while the bergskollegium, which was the highest state authority for the metallurgical industry, had been established as early as 1637. Why these two colleges were left out of the collegial system proposed in the memorandum is a question which cannot be answered with any certainty; perhaps the author’s knowledge of the organizational extent of the Swedish collegial administration was limited. Pavel Miliukov, who discovered this memorandum in the collection called Kabinet Petra Velikogo in the course of research for his book on the Russian state economy, stated that “the very composition of the colleges listed demonstrates conclusively that in this case we are dealing with a project of adopting precisely the Swedish colleges, a note Peter made in connection with his review of this proposal, Miliukov succeeded in establishing a terminus ante quern for its origin. Peter’s note, which was dated March 23, 1715, listed the colleges described in the memorandum, using the same designations and the same order. Memorandum'. 1. lustitsi kollegium 2. Kantseliarnyi kollegium 3. Admiralitet 4. Krigs-Kollegium 5. Kamer-Kollegium 6. (Stats-kontora) 7. Komerts-Kollegium With the help of ” 112 Peter's note-. lustits K. Kantseliarii Chiuzhestrannykh del K. Admiralteiskoi K. Krikhs K. Kamer K. Komertsii K. According to Miliukov, Peter failed to include the stats-kontora in his note simply because “in the Russian translation, because of a misunderstanding on the part of the translator, the heading before the description of the stats-kontora was excluded and the description of it was merged with the description of the kamer-kollegium. Understandably enough. ” 114 Miliukov, 424. ZA (no. 254), 213. Miliukov, 425. See also ZA (no. 331), 274 note 1, where Voskresenskii writes that “the number of chapter VI has been left out in the original, just as has the name of the college—stats-kontora." The Soviet historian G. A. Nekrasov has also dealt with Peter’s note on the colleges of March 23, 1715. However, Nekrasov has not understood the connection between the memorandum and Peter’s note (in spite of the fact that this was pointed out by Voskresenskii in ZA, which is the collection of sources Nekrasov used) and has therefore drawn the incorrect conclusion that “the final decision to establish colleges was made by the tsar in 1715; on March 23 Peter I drew up a list of colleges {iustits, kantseliarii chuzhestrannykh del, admiralteiskoi, krigs, kamer and kommerts), but this project was not carried out. We notice that there were not as many as the Swedish colleges: in it were included the iustits-kollegiia, which did not exist in Sweden, and at the same time the stats-kontora, which was very important
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