Prince Platon Aleksandrovich Zubov, General-Feltseichmeister, was renamed, on November 26, 1796, to Artillery Inspectors, and then, on December 6 of the same year, was dismissed from service. The place of Prince Zubov was occupied by General Pyotr Ivanovich Mellisino.
December 21, 1796, the Highest commanded the Main Chancellery of Artillery and Fortifications to join the Military Collegium, under the name
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Emperor Paul 1,
Founder of the Schöner Regiment.
(Password Highest order February 27, 1797).
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` 1797 On January 11, 1797, it was the Highest order to destroy those advantages in ranks between Engineering and Army officers 1), which were so counted on by those who served and what was included in the considerations of the former chiefs of the Engineering Troops, as a means of encouraging educated people or, as the Regulations say: “so that through the best work for benefit and glory There were learned officers of the state.” Regarding this decree, the following letter from General Kushelev to General Mellisino 2 has been preserved in the archives:
Dear Sovereign Peter Ivanovich!
“The Sovereign Emperor deigned to send me to explain to Your Excellency that it is pleasing to Him that all ranks of Artillery and Engineering should correspond to the army, and an order will be given tomorrow, and therefore the captains, who now have the ranks of the army and marines, will be called maors, and so all ranks equally according to this According to the rule, they will go to those in which they have the army and are assigned positions according to ten ranks, and again they will have fireworks, then lieutenants, then captains, who will be equal to the army, and so on and so on.”
10 chenvar 1797 +. General-Adjutant Eushelev.
Emperor Paul, having taken upon himself all the concerns of the Main Directorate for Engineering, could not, of course, fail to pay attention, from the very first days of his reign, to the pitiful state of the Field Engineering Troops.
On February 27, 1797, it was ordered: to have, under Artillery, in place of the existing Miner Company, a Guoner Regiment, consisting of 10 companies of Poners and two companies of Miner-Sappers 3).
1798. According to the states, Highly approved on December 24, 1798 4), the Poner regiment was divided into 2 battalions, in each battalion there was one company of miners with sappers and 5 companies of schoners. In addition, the entire battalion was located at the 8th depot. (See Table P, Appendix XX).
The commander of the General Regiment was given the rank of major general, the battalion commanders were: one with the rank of colonel, and the other with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
The Schöner Regiment consisted of: 5 staff officers (1 colonel, 2 lieutenant colonels and 3 mars); 51 chief officers (7 captains, 5 staff captains, 12 lieutenants and 27 second lieutenants).
1) P.S. Zak. Ross. `Im., vol. KhZhMU, No. 17722.
2) East. Very good Eng. Ex. in Rosby, A. Savelyeva, 1879 3) P. S. Zak. Ross. Imn., vol. XU, No. 17852.
+) P.S. Zak. Ross. Imp., vol. KHII, No. 18797.
The chief officers included: 2 battalion adjutants and one adjutant to the commanding general. There were 15 non-commissioned officers in each company; They were divided, in relation to the content they received, into 4 classes (per year they received: 1st grade - 94 rubles 80 k., 2nd class - 68 rubles 10 k., 3rd class - 24 rubles 50 k. and 4th class - 19 rubles 60 k.). Each company consisted of privates: the miner company—75 miners (the salary of one person per year is 18 rubles 84 kopecks), and the schoner company has 5—50 1st class schoners (the salary of one person per year is 14 rubles 89 kopecks) and 100 2nd class shoners (the salary of one person per year is 12 rubles 72 kopecks). The regiment was assigned: 36 drummers, 10 non-commissioned masters and 152 masters.:
The total number of lower ranks in the Schöner Regiment was 2,298, of which 1,680 were combatants, including 160 people in the regiment. artisans (30 blacksmiths, 10 mechanics, 10 wheelwrights, 10 turners, 80 carpenters, 10 saddlery apprentices and 10 farrier apprentices). In addition to these artisans, the regiment consisted of 8 apprentices (2 blacksmiths, 2 mechanics, 2 turners and 2 carpenters).