To confirm my opinion that the Field Engineering Troops have always been needed, I allow myself to point out that from the very first days of his reign, Emperor Paul, who personally put him at the head of the Engineering Department and was fully aware of the unsatisfactory condition of the Field Engineering Troops, took upon himself all the concerns about improving and increasing their numerical strength.
Indeed. Thanks to His energy, unshakable will and correct view of this special type of weapon, the Field Engineering Troops soon received a fairly correct organization, on par with other types of weapons, and their numerical strength increased 10 times.
And so, we can safely say that Emperor Peter [| We owe it to him that he laid the foundation for the existence of the Engineering Troops, and to Emperor Paul [The Field Engineering Troops owe our revival and the foundation of further lasting development.
D. P. Ivnov.
APPLICATIONS
to the Historical Sketch
FIELD ENGINEERING VOYS
D. P. Ivkova.
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Extract from the file of the former Artillery Expedition for the Engineering Field.
Until the year 710, according to the records in the office of the Main Artillery and Fortifications, no “position was found either about the engineering corps or about the ranks of its members,” and from that year 710 and after 712, the tables signed by the own hand of the Sovereign Emperor Peter the Great are considered to be on which the engineers wrote between the artillerymen, although attached to They are appointed under No. 1, but there is no information about the number of their status both according to that table and the subsequent one according to the military regulations in 716.
On March 16, 1719, by a named Decree, it was ordered to establish an engineering company from the students of the Moscow engineering school in St. Petersburg under the supervision of engineer Colonel De-coulomb, and on December 722, 25, by another named Decree, General Major De-coulomb was ordered to be the director of the fortresses in his charge of all engineers and 06 $ Engineer and Miner companies why the state of the engineer with the ranks subject to it has been clearly proven before that time, but the number of people and ranks is not known according to the Dolm.
Through the named Decree of July 723, 2 days, on the establishment of an engineering and mining company for General Major De-coulomb and on recruiting them from engineering students of St. Petersburg and Moscow schools.......and through Kosha from a note in the same year from the State Military Track to the artillery about zldlan! and anstaltov with the detachment of field from garrison sent and contained engineering ranks, but by what order and from what time in what school did the numbers for military affairs consist.
On January 13, 724, a personal decree ordered the field and garrison engineering commanders to be given a special rank against the artillerymen, and on the 21st of the same month, by a second decree, the number was also shown for the position in the anstalts, the headquarters of the engineering company and the engineering regiment, as everything attached to this under No. As a result of the above-mentioned commands, according to the artillery about the fortresses, the anstalt of the engineering ranks is set:
On this presented inspected state military koneermatsi anstalt koneermatsi, as well as on the contents according to the intention of His Imp. Velich. There are no garrison engineers, and about army engineering and ministries in `726, a new tax was given. According to which, the number of generals and all belonging ranks assigned to the maintenance in the engineering departments in this department is assigned to PPOD No. 4 and is assigned to show that in 728, 3 in the Supreme Secret Council of His Imp. Vel. koneermovana. But since it was recognized that the use of engineers in addition to fortification work on canals, roads and other third-party corrections was not enough, for the sake of the increase in various ranks in 730, 511 people were sent to the then established commission attached to this under No. 5 staff, as well as the subsequent increase from the same people in February 731 On the 10th day from General Felt Marshal Minich to the governing Senate, the presentation, although not confirmed, however, some ranks were allowed to be determined by the verbal Senate, and by the same year, on the 2nd of November, the Decree and from others were written out, and moreover, according to the decrees of the state military board, 24 ensigns were added in 749, in 750 one priest