 For a long time, outside the sphere of control of the collegiums, the most important functions remained — police, lumières, medicine, and the post offices.Gradually, however, new branch bodies, often called chancelleries, supplemented the collegium system.Thus, the Pharmaceutical Order, which was already operating in the new capital, St. Petersburg, was transformed into the Medical College since 1721, and since 1725 into the Medical Chancellery.