Military Regulations of Weide. First General-Fieldmaster Tsarevich Imeretinsk! General Bruce. Artillery order. Founding of the School of Engineering. Founding of the Mineral Company. Calling foreigners and their relations in the Engineering Troops. States were approved for the Engineer Troops in 1712. Military Regulations of Peter the Great in relation to the Engineering Troops. Changes in the staff of the Mineral Company, 1723. Distribution of the Engineering Saints among the officers of the expedition. General De-Coulomb. Razdflene Engineers in the field and garrison. Granting advantages in ranks and salaries to officers of the Engineering Troops. General Ginther.
Moving on to the presentation of one of the most interesting facts of the historical development of the Engineering Troops in Russia - their establishment, the organization of their management. numbers in different periods and considering the various methods of their upbringing and education, we must admit that, undoubtedly, the initiative to establish a special kind of weapon in our fatherland—the Field Engineering Troops—entirely belongs to Emperor Peter 1.
His brilliant mind, bright and sensible view of the then state of the Russian troops and their management could not escape the fact that, with the improvement of the technical side of Field Engineering, troops not prepared in peacetime and not trained in this specialty would not be able, in a moment of need, to fulfill all the serious requirements for sieges and defense of fortresses, I will strengthen the captivity of positions, establish communication routes and crossings, which will be presented to them with the opening of military operations.
All our historical evidence clearly indicates that none of the military institutions that existed in the pre-Petrine era touched or cared, in peacetime, about the education, organization and training of the Engineering Troops themselves, as a special kind of weapon.
1698 The first information about the importance of Engineering, here in Rosmi, is found in the Military Regulations compiled by the brigadier
Weide, in 1698, and dedicated to Peter the Great 1). Speaking about the appointment of the head of the army brigade, the author of this charter adds: “It is appropriate for him to understand the fortification, so that when a siege occurs and part of the offensive will be handed over to him, he will lead the bala and conveniently teach the establishment and his Engineers.”
Further, listing the ranks that are necessary for the troops, the author names: Generalissimuea or full governor, General of the Army, General-Feltseichmeister and General-Engineer; about the latter, this charter says: “It is appropriate” for him to especially understand his own business, since through it there are great losses and also great benefits to be made... Such a person should be careful and careful in his principles and understand in the basics, not only depicting decently on paper to mark, but also to a learned practitioner or one who has been tempted to be... At all costs he goes into the trenches and excavations that have been made and inspects all the work.”
1700 At the beginning of the 18th century, along with other government reforms, reforms began in the military department.
At the beginning of the reign, or, more correctly, the autocracy of Peter [namely, on May 19, 1700, the following decree was issued:
“The Great Sovereign Tsar and the Great Yeenyaz Peter Alekstevich, all the great and small and big of Russia, the autocrat, indicated all the actions that were given in the Pushkar order, to give artillery to the General Tsarevich Alexander Archilovich?), @& the clerk will only continue to be 3).”
1) Mater. for History Engineer. units in Rostsi (Engineering magazine 1860, No. 4).
2) Alex Archilovich Imereti (or Imeretisky), a participant and comrade in Peter’s amusing games during his childhood, was included in the “qualities of a special category volunteer” in the great embassy sent by the Sovereign to Western Europe, where he settled in The Hague. Having studied the theory and practice of artillery (during the end of 1697 and all of 1698), he returned to Russia with very decent, for his time, connections. It is not known exactly when he received the title of General Feldzeichmeister, but it can be assumed that this happened between February 19 and May 19, 1700 (Material for the historical Artil. Administration in Russia, N. E. Brandenburg. St. Petersburg.., 1876).
3) Palace categories, ed. 1855, p. 1133 (Material for Historical Artil. Administration in Russia, N. E. Brandenburg, St. Petersburg, 1876). Here is an interesting list of people who were in charge of the Pushkarsky Prikaz from 1611 to 1700: