Institutes of church assemblies and councils of protestant communities of Petersburg in the XVIII century

In the article questions of formation of a control system by Protestant communities in Saint Petersburg in XVIII century are considered. On the basis of historical sources' data for the first time in a domestic science the situation of establishment of institutes of assemblies and convents of arrivals is reconstructed; elements of structure of councils and functional loading of their members are separately analyzed. The author gives special attention to research of aspects of the agenda of annual assemblies and quantitative structure of members of councils. The text of this article was discussed and has been approved by employees of the Department of a source study and Scientific - historical archive of the St.-Petersburg Institute of a history of the Russian Academy of sciences on February, 7, 2006 (report № 2 certified by a seal of establishment and' signatures of the head of a department of the doctor of historical sciences of V.N. Ginev and the scientific secretary of the candidate of historical sciences of A.N. Vasiljev).