It was printed in First Romanian School in Brasov, at that time in Austro-Hungarian Empire, today in Romania.

[3] The primer was a result of the increasing number of secular schools appearing in Ottoman Bulgaria, as well as Beron's own impressions of Western European systems of education.

Students received their education in Old Church Slavonic or Greek, both of which were difficult to understand for those outside the clergy.

All sections from Primer to Smart responses contain basic knowledge on language, religion and rhetoric; Fables includes most of Aesop's eponymous works, and the remaining sections are a collection of famous events from ancient history, studies on plants and animals and mathematical science.

The book had an enormous impact on the National Revival and played a key role in laying the foundations of a modern, secular Bulgarian education.