Abstract
The article continues the study of the social status and related features of the life and activity of the professional Tsar’s and patriarchal choirs’ singers. According to the author, the totality of the installed data (activities, principles of recruitment, types of salary and salary system, legal status) indicated that the Tsar’s and patriarch’s choristers were included in the category of service class peo- ple (“sluzhilye lyudi”). Retiring from the choir, they often entered or transferred to such positions or ranks in the state apparatus, such as duma or department diaki, boyar’s children. The obtained data on the peculiarities of every day life and morals, behavior in home life and society allow to specify the social status of these masters.
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