1) Tsardom of Russia 
A Podyachy or podyachiy (подьячий, sometimes подъячий; from the Greek hypodiakonos, `assistant servant`) was an office (bureaucratic) occupation in prikazes (local and upper governmental offices) and lesser local offices of Russia in 15th-18th centuries. As an anachronism, it may be loosely translated as clerk the Latin word equa.....