concept
Copyist (pisets)
copyist
also: писец, pisets
The lowest rung of civil-service clerical work, transcribing documents by hand for a meager salary; despite its humble reality, such a post could seem like salvation to the chronically unemployed, as it does to Misha.
Reading notes
- A Personage §1 copyist
A pisets, the lowest rung of civil-service clerical work -- transcribing documents by hand for a meager salary. It required only minimal schooling, which is why it is within Misha's reach at all.