in the campaign “Forced Labor on Imperial Construction: The Ladoga Canal (1704–1725)”
Removing Cossack regiments from the Cossack hierarchy and placing them under the direct command of imperial officials: Peter I handed the direction of the Ladoga Canal works to B.-C. Münnich, who "took over from Prince A. Menshikov the direction of the construction (digging) of the Ladoga Canal"[1]; Cossack corps were dispatched to these works "by order of Tsar Peter I"[2].