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).[1]

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  1. ^ Успенский, Я. Д. "Певчий дьяк". Belcanto.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 16 April 2020.
Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pevchy_dyak
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