Poetical narrative, 1582.
The lyrics are by Maciej Stryjkowski, 'Kronika Polska, Litewska, Żmudzka i wszystkiej Rusi' ('The Chronicle of Poland, Lithuania, Samogitia and all Russia') 1582, translation from Polish by A. Dzitrych. Music is folk from the BNT chrestomathy: Ballads (Book I, Minsk, 1977). The text and melody adaptation by Zmicier Sasnoŭski.
Maciej Stryjkowski (1547–1593) – one of the most famous Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth historians of the second half of XVI. He was the author of patriotic poesy on Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth history. Polish, Lithuanian, Sagmotia and all Russia Chronicles – the first printed history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania brought the greatest glory to him as to a historian and a poet. The value if Chronicles is that its author was a witness of many wars described by himself and many battles he took part in.