 The first known publication of this poem, originally dedicated to Yevhen Hrebinka, is considered the 1840 "Kobzar" (also in Saint Peterburg), the first edition of this Shevchenko's best known poetry collection.The poem was published again in the 1844 edition of Kobzar without the dedication to Hrebinka and with some orthographic changes.The same year the poem was published in the Polish transliteration in the collection «Wirszy T. Szewczenka» (the publication contained one grammatical error in declension.)