Kłótnia przez zakład

It was written by Lipiński at an early point of his career, when he was a resident of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine), and staged at the city theater before 1814.

It is based on a Russian comedy The Sable Fur Coat[1] (Соболья шуба, или Спорь до слез, а об закладе не бейся) by Nicolai Kugushev [ru] published in 1803.

[4][5] In a handwritten text of the libretto preserved at the National Ossoliński Institute in the Polish city of Wrocław it has two different title pages with two different subtitles referring to its genre: Sceniczna fraszka and Komedyo-opera.

[7] The overture made use of the famous Polish national tune Jeszcze Polska nie zgineła, a fact that astonished listeners.

The opera was also known as Szuba sobolowa lub brylantowy pierścień albo Zakład o kłótnię (The Sable Fur Coat, or, The Brilliant Ring, or, A Dispute over a Bet).