As soon as the old Hetman’s treason had been made clear, Peter ordered the Kozak officers to elect Ivan Skoropadsky in his place; but he already took care that the new hetman should not have the power of the old. Within two months, as soon as Charles had been defeated and it was possible for Peter to make far-reaching plans, he sent a Russian official, Izmaylov, to remain with the hetman “to be resident minister at the hetman’s court with the function of assisting him with ‘forceful’ advice in settling all issues, because of the recent rebellion in Little Russia and the Zaporozhian uprising.” Skoropadsky and all the Kozaks well knew what this meant, especially when the Tsar refused to allow a formal confirmation of the conditions of the Treaty of Pereyaslav. To make the significance still plainer, the Tsar moved the hetman’s capital to Hlukhiv near the Russian border and assigned two regiments of Russian troops to watch over the safety of the hetman and arrest him at the slightest suspicious sign. This was a good beginning, for every one knew and realized that from that time on Skoropadsky would be hetman only in name. He and the Kozak officers would have to bear the brunt of any unpopular actions. The Kozaks would merely murmur at their own officers and the Russians could then step in to act as the champions of the masses and try to win them away from their allegiance to the Host. At the same time Peter very ostentatiously treated Skoropadsky with respect on the occasions of his state visits to the capital, and waited. The building of the city of St. Petersburg and the various other works in the north, like the construction of the Ladoga Canal, demanded an abundance of labor. The Kozaks were in a way bound to government service and Peter summoned large numbers of them to the north, where they were compelled to labor under the most unhealthy conditions. They died by the thousands, and the Host the next year or on the return of the survivors was compelled to furnish other large contingents. Orlyk, who kept in touch with the situation from abroad, openly said that it was the object of Peter to exterminate the whole Host by these methods. He may have exaggerated Peter’s purpose but facts certainly seemed to support him. At the same time Skoropadsky was not strong enough to maintain order at home. He was much under the influence of his wife and his friends. His son-in-law, whom he made army judge, indulged so extensively in bribery that Peter again felt himself called upon to intervene and in 1722, he appointed a Little Russian Board under Brigadier Velyaminov to supervise the administration of justice under the hetman. This act definitely transferred the most important functions of the Host in times of peace to the Russian commanders of the garrison in Ukraine. Even Skoropadsky protested against this last act, and the refusal of his petition so hurt the old man that he died a few months later.