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Pevchy dyak (Russian: певчий дьяк) is a historical name of singer's occupation in Russia. They were singers at tsar's court and in church choirs of higher church hierarchs: patriarch, metropolitan, archiereus (bishop of the Eastern Orthodox Church).^[1]

The title (in both senses) was abolished by Peter the Great in 1720s during his massive reforms of the Russian state.^{[citation needed]}

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