A podyachy or podyachiy was an office occupation in prikazes and lesser local offices of Russia in the 15th to 18th centuries. The podyachyes were classified into junior, middle and senior. A senior p
Ivan Cherkasov started his career as a podyachy
A deacon is a member of the diaconate, an office in Christian churches that is generally associated with service of some kind, but which varies among theological and denominational traditions.
Podyachy
…Voyevoda#Siberia for their role in Siberian administration "Deacon#Cognates" for other historical terms derived from the Greek diakonos. Russian rank titles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries…
Saint Stephen, one of the first seven deacons in the Christian Church, holding a Gospel Book in a 1601 painting by Giacomo Cavedone.
Ornately embroidered dalmatic, the proper vestment of the deacon, shown from the back with an appareled amice.
A Catholic deacon wearing his dalmatic and biretta.
Greek Orthodox deacon in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, wearing an orarion over his sticharion. On his head he wears the clerical kamilavka.