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A crying song, sung by a mother mourning her daughter’s suicide. Laura shares with us a detailed history of the song and her family’s involvement in the story:

"In 1937-1938 my grandfather Iliko Burduli was a a temp worker for his godfather Iobi on farms in Tusheti.  During those years, a woman named Asmat fell in love with him.  Prior to being farm workers, Asmat and her mother had been exiled to Siberia. They managed the impossible, to escape and make the long and harrowing voyage back to their village, Alvani.  Iliko, knowing that Asmat had been married while she was in Siberia and also knowing of the hardships she had faced in her life, deemed her unsuitable as a wife and refused to marry her.  When she received my grandfather’s refusal, she committed suicide with a gun.

Asmat’s mother sang this song in mourning, and local people who knew of the story learned it from her singing. Today we sing this song so as not to forget the history of this tragic love story."