70 realm from the peasant and the soldier right up to the Senate.” There is nothing in the available Russian sources to indicate that Trubetskoi ever executed this assignment, and, indeed, it is not at all certain that the tsar’s ukaz ever reached him; not only did the Swedish authorities censor the correspondence of the Russian officers and often confiscate letters, but Trubetskoi himself was kept in prison in Stockholm at various times.*** It was only in 1718, in connection with the peace conference on that Trubetskoi was exchanged for the Swedish Field Marshal Karl Gustaf Rehnskiöld.**^ The tsar was also interested in other Russian officers who had spent some time in Swedish custody. On April 22, 1715, for example, Friedrich Christian von Weber reported to the Elector of Braunschweig-Liineburg that “Der General Weide (sic) und andere russische Officiers, welche seit der Narwischen action in Stockholm gefangen gesessen, haben in der Zeit den Suedischen Staat studiret und geben daher dem Zaren zu obged(achten) collegiis die Anleitung.“ *** And, indeed, after his escape from Swedish imprisonment and his return to Russia, General Adam Weyde was engaged by the tsar to work on the collegial reform. Soon found unsuitable for this task, however, Weyde was relieved of his responsibilities in 1717 for lack of sufficient knowledge concerning the business at hand. Let us now return to the ukaz sent to Prince Dolgorukii at Copenhagen on December 13, 1715, instructing him to obtain passport papers for the unnamed individual who had been charged by Peter to study the Swedish administrative system. In his relation entitled ,,Russland unter Peter dem Grossen,“ Prussian legation secretary Johann Gotthilf Vockerodt wrote of this event that the tsar, „ohne dariiber mit jemanden zu consultiren, anno 1716 heimlich einen Menschen nach Schweden schickte, und demselben Geld iiber Geld gab, um ihm die Instructiones und Reglements der dasigen Collegiorum zu procuriren.“ **^ The person whose mission was so carefully kept secret was Heinrich Pick. It is not entirely clear how and when the Russians established contact with Heinrich Fick. Hitherto, historians have relied on a letter, cited by Pekarskii and supposedly sent to the tsar by Adam Weyde from Giistrow in Mecklenburg-Schwerin on November 13, 1715. Weyde reZA (no. 34), 50. Nekrasov, 338. Some letters addressed to Trubetskoi, but confiscated by the Swedish authorities, are to be found in RA, Extranea 157, 2—3, and in RA, Militära ämnesserier, M 1521. N. N. Bantysh-Kamenskii, Obzor vneshnikh snoshenii Rossii po ISOO g. (4 v., Moscow, 1894—1902), IV, 215. ZB, II, 54. ZA (no. 266), 221. 1»» ZB, I, 32. Åland, 134 130 131 132
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