The salaries of officers were increased against the states of 1757, from 25% / 0 to 60 ° / 0, the lower ranks - privates received the same; ‘and the salaries of non-commissioned officers were significantly increased. From the salary was deducted for medicines and hospital expenses, from officers - 11/> kopecks, and from others - 1 kopeck. from the ruble..
Orderlies were supposed to be given in kind only to those soldiers who had less than 100 souls “behind them,” and to the Lieland and Estland nobles who had less than 5 hooks (colonel - 6, lieutenant colonel - 4, maor - 3, captain and staff captain - 2, other ranks one each). |
Provant was assigned to all lower ranks. Each year was given: 3 quarters of flour, 2 quarters of cereals and 2 garnets.
The Pyunern regiment consisted of the following convoy:
1) Medicine box.
2) Carts for mining, entrenching and workshop tools.
3) Carts for writing and cash treasury.
4) Carriages for sick soldiers.
5) Half-trucks for soldiers' shoes and spare ammunition.
6) Box for tents.
In addition, pack horses were supposed to carry boilers.
Regarding the formation of the Pyuner Regiment, etc., preserved in the art
Khivakh next letter from Gen. Quartermaster Baron Arakcheev to Gen. Mellisino!).
1) East. Very good Eng. Ex. in Rosci, A. Savelyeva, 1879
"Your Excellency
M.G.
Peter Ivanovich!
“The Emperor deigned to order that your Excellency be asked whether a poner regiment, sapper and miner companies have been formed, which should be established according to the new arrangement of artillery? Are the tools they need available? Have the people been seconded, and have the mentioned instruments been sent to their depots? If all this is not ready yet, then take the most active efforts to complete it as quickly as possible, so that everything is ready at the first request. His Majesty was especially pleased to confirm that Your Excellency would use all means adjacent to the western and southern borders of the depot, such as Riga, Smolensk and Kyiv, hastily. provide a complete number of drivers and sappers; miners and pontooners with their tools. His Imperial Majesty assumes that the tools needed for them are available, just in case, he deigned to order to notify you that if they are not in readiness, or although they are, but unreliable, your Excellency would order them to immediately create Gascony again; and to build them they would use money from the artillery sum. Meanwhile, in the equipment of pontoons, I consider it most necessary to send skilled Ayitzers at the times indicated above, and with them capable pontooners and craftsmen, who, if necessary, could fix the pontoons themselves. And so Your Excellency will not fail to let me know about everything described above in detail. Moreover, His Imperial Majesty was pleased to accept Lieutenant Colonel Tolstov and Engineer Major Anichkov, who were in the commands of Your Excellency’s artillery, into his retinue, and to appoint quartermaster generals to my team. Why do I ask Your Excellency to order them to be sent to me immediately in the city of Vilna, allowing them to take with them from the drawing room located at the artillery expedition the plans and drawings needed for that region. Your Excellency will kindly lend me, when from your own you deign to give me such, which at least served me a lot in explaining our midday and western borders. I remember and
I know that you have always been a hunter and an expert in them. I will remain indispensable and equal to your Excellency with respect and devotion, I remain—
Your Excellency
April 24 days dear sir 1797 humble servant Moscow. quartermaster general
Baron Arakcheev."
February 27, 1797 constitutes an important era in the life of the Corps of Engineers. With the establishment of the Pyunner Regiment, a solid foundation was laid for the existence and further development of the Field Engineering Troops. From that time on, their number not only did not decrease, but, on the contrary, quickly increased. For a more visual understanding of the state of the Field Engineering Troops, I am enclosing a breakdown of their numbers, from the day they were formed to February 27, 1797. (See Appendix XHP.
Number of Engineering Troops. (Appendix XX].
From this information we see that Count Shuvalov, in 1757, made an attempt to increase the size of the Field Engineering Troops. But, unfortunately, his successors very soon destroyed everything that he had created. The numerical strength of the Field Engineering Troops kept decreasing, thanks to the lack of productivity of the people who managed the Engineering Department, until, finally, Emperor Paul himself became the head and took upon himself, personally, all the responsibilities for managing the Engineering Troops.