Prince of Hesse-Homburg. Name list of all ranks Engineer military troops in 1742. Instructions from the Prince of Hesse-Homburg. Perenaming the Office of the Main Artillery and Fortifications and connections nene Engineering Directorate with Artillery. Prince Repnin. General Ma1or Hannibal.
1742 April 15, 1742!) Empress Elizaveta Petrovna most mercifully wished the Engineering Corps and the Fortification
1) P.S. Zak. Ross. Im., vol. X No. 8517. Although Mr. Dekhterev, compiler of the Chronological List, ed. 1858 and dates the union of the Corps of Engineers with the Artillery to February 16, 1742, but this is likely a typo in its edition.
her offices will remain as before, as it was under Peter T, with Artillery in place, under the authority of the Feldzeichmeister-General, Prince of Hesse-Homburg.
The Engineering Archive preserves an interesting nominal list of all ranks of the Engineering House, April 15, 1742, when the Prince of Homburg assumed the corrected position of General-Feltzeichmeister 1).
From this list it is clear that the Mineral Company, in its entirety, was not located in one place. It was divided into parts: in Azovf - 71 people, Vyborg - 49 people, St. Petersburg - 2 people, Moscow - 2 people, K!ev - 54 people, Narv - 1 person, Revel - 2 people, Shlisselburg - 1 person, Kr. St. Anna - 1 person, on the Volkhov Rapids - 1 person, Hlukhiv - 1 person, Vi Kexholm - 3 people. and in Astrakhan—1 person. The company commander, with an assistant, was in Vyborg, where there was a training camp; The third officer was in Kronstadt. There was a huge shortage of officers; there were none in other cities; Their positions were filled by sergeants and corporals, who were, for the most part, old, experienced soldiers (25 liters or more per service; the youngest of them were at least 7 liters per service). Such a spread-out position of the company, according to the concepts of that time, had some consequences. Being employed at various posts and in other Engineering work, Miners had the opportunity to thoroughly study various types of Engineering technology. In addition, it can serve as the best proof of how much the need for miners was always felt, even during peacetime work, and also of the fact that their number did not correspond to the needs of that time.
That the title of Miner was quite honorable and required a certain kind of merit and knowledge can be judged by the fact that most of them were appointed miners not in the very year of entering the service, but after 2, up to 16 years.
In addition, the above list confirms that the Miner Company was founded earlier than 1712, i.e., the time when states were first approved for it, since, for example, Miner Stepan Porshin had been in service since 1707 and in the rank of Miner since 1709.
In 1743, the Chief General and the Prince of Hesse-Homburg, “together with those present in the Office of the Main Artillery and Fortifications,” drew up an instruction “On the Management of the Engineering Corps and Fortifications?”). (See attached 7/11).
1) East. very good Eng. Ex. in Russia, A. Savelyeva. 1879
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This Instruction stated:
1) Maintain the Engineering Corps, Schools and Mineral Company “in good order”, according to the states approved in 1728, with permission, due to the lack of Engineers, to have in excess of the staff as before: Major - 2, Second Lieutenants - 15 and students - 15 (this is allowed was given by Emperor Peter II in 1731). The previously allocated amount of 70,000 rubles was left for the maintenance of all ranks of the Engineering Corps, the Mineral Company and the school, as well as for the “repair” of buildings.
2) Production at the vacancy was provided to the chief director. He was also given the right to appoint officers to the Engineering Corps from among the best students of the school, and those who were capable and had been in school for several years to the Mineral Company. The lower ranks in the Mineral Company were supposed to be appointed from the field garrison regiments, making sure that among them there were a sufficient number of people who knew carpentry, plumbing, axing and carpentry, as well as tailors and shoemakers.
3) The Chief Director was obliged to monitor the good condition of the fortresses and personally inspect them.
4) During attacks and defenses of fortresses, there should have been Engineers who were entrusted with carrying out all agricultural work of this kind, under the personal supervision of the chief director.