Pevchy dyak (Russian: певчий дьяк) is a historical name of a singer's occupation in Russia. They were singers at the tsar's court and in church choirs of higher church hierarchs: patriarch, metropolitan, archiereus (bishop of the Eastern Orthodox Church).
Pevchy dyak (Russian: певчий дьяк) is a historical name of a singer's occupation in Russia. They were singers at the tsar's court and in church choirs of higher church hierarchs: patriarch, metropolitan, archiereus (bishop of the Eastern Orthodox Church).
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