Table IEstimated numbers Estimated cost
('000 roubles, rounded)neral staff 184 91
·::!ry -+..J,04'. ... 765
ards } 62,454 882
an try
rrison troops 64,769 452
illery 3,526 195
al 174.757 2,385
·rces: PSZ iv, xliii. 2319, 2480; SVM iv. app. 18, p. 21; Stein, Geschichte, p. 66; Solov'yev,
itlciy ocherlc' (slight variations).
~or the years immediately following, composite figures for military expendi-
e are not available, since funds were provided by the gubernii. Moscow pro-
ce may serve as an example: its 1716 estimates provided for a total expenditure
>17 ,000 roubles, of which 771,000 (84.1 per cent) went on military purposes.^81
the same year Archangel province, which coped better than most with its
igations, was required to devote 79.2 per cent of its expenditure to the armed
:es; it actually turned over only two-thirds of the sum requested, but of this
3 per cent was military-related.^82 At the end of 1716 governors were directed
end the funds they had collected to the Senate's Military Chancellery.^83 This
1ifled a return to the normalcy of centralized administration.
'he War College (as this chancellery soon became) received its funds from
ther central department, the Shtats-kontora (Treasury), which was respon-
e for drawing up establishment tables for the entire bureaucracy; revenue
ection was supervised by the Kammer-kollegiya.^84 These bodies were directly
cerned with the introduction of the poll tax. A new table was now drawn up
'.he army, which Peter approved on 9 February 1720.^85 In the past nine years
general staff and artillery had expanded, and so had the expenditure on
:er's pay and rations; the number of regiments had risen from 118 to 129. Yet
total cost was only a little more than it had been in 1711. This apparent
1cle may be explained by the increase in the proportion of garrison troops,
were paid at lower rates, and by the reduction in the proportion of
.lrymen, who were more expensive to maintain. These figures are given in
le 2. This time supplies were included in the estimates, but one should add
ndetermined sum for military-related construction, the Ukrainian frontier
: (land-mililsiya), and irregular troops-although these two groups were
:::alculated from Milyukov. Gos. khoz. Rossii, p. 435. This excludes medical expenditure,
of which was military-rela1cd.
:atculated from Milyukov, Gos. khoz. Rossii, pp. 464-5, n. I.
PSZv. 3048 (3 Nov. 1716): Milyukov. Gos. khoz. Rossii, p. 498.
Vlilyulcov, Gos. khoz. Rossii, pp. 595, 597.
PSZxliii. 3511(pp.15-38); Solov'yev, 'Kratkiy ocherk organizatsii', p. 101.