Prikaz
![A prikaz in Moscow. Painting by Alexander Yanov](/Images/godic/202502/04/Prikaz_v_Moskve2243.jpg")
Prikaz (Russian:прика́з, prikaz; IPA: [prʲɪˈkas]) was an administrative (palace, civil, military, or church), judicial, territorial, and executive offices earlier in Muscovy and Russia of 15th-18th centuries. The term is usually implies "ministry", "office" or "department". In modern Russian "prikaz" literally means an order.