The author of the song was the wife of the performer's husband's paternal grandfather: Matrëna Romanovna Smolina. The performer only remembered the first part of the song, which she composed on the occasion of getting married around the 1870–80s, on the model of women's songs with a similar theme. This schema was already available to young women at the time with fully elaborated formulas, and it was almost obligatory for them to sing songs of the crucial events of their lives. Women of the Little Sos′va kept to the old traditions up until the dissolution of the population (the 1940s). Its tune was very popular around Tunzingort village: the song No. 1980.PE.1, which is from the same village, was also composed to this tune.