[1] The song's lyrical heroine, the Kupala Night Maiden is “weeding a rose, piercing her white hands” and “plucking flowers, weaving wreaths, and shedding tears”.
[2] It is considered that the song has become “the national personification of Belarus as a country with a beautiful and sad woman’s face”.
[1] Based on folk motives, it was set to music by Uladzimier Teraŭski, Belarusian composer, in 1921.
It was played by non-professional actress Aliaksandra Aliaksandrovič, with whom Čarot was in love and to whom he wanted to dedicate the song.
Until recently, their names had been largely forgotten and the song's lyrics and music had been described as “folk” without identifiable authors—despite Teraŭski's and Čarot's posthumous exoneration.