Pieman

Someone who bakes quantities of pies for sale. A pie vendor.

“While constructing St. Petersburg, Peter was naturally afraid of relying on people who regarded Moscow as their hereditary nest. He made Alexander Menshikov his right-hand man; he, rumour has it, previously earned his living as a peddler of hot pies. Menshikov’s luxurious palace still graces the banks of the Neva and the Czar often used to spend the night there after friendly drinking sessions. He also sometimes thrashed his host, who was enterprising and intrepid but also rather light-fingered, evidently as a legacy of his childhood peddling.”

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, “The City with Three Names,” Insight Guide: St. Petersburg (1994).