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The mausoleum in the Gumbazi Sayyidan in Shakhrisabz, reminiscent of Shah-i-Zinda in Samarkand, was built for members of the Termez branch of Sayyids,…

Hazrati Malik Ajdar mosque one of the district mosques of the city of Shakhrisabz, frame type. Dimensions: 8×8 and 8.5×8.5 m. The larged closed hall…

Sayyid - lord, head. In the Koran and Hadith it is used in the dictionary meaning (“lord”, or as a synonym for one of the names of Allah). Later the…

This Chagatai-Ottoman dictionary is supposed to have been compiled by Ḥāfiẓ ʿAcemoğlu Niyāzī, an Ottoman admirer of Mīr ʿAlī-šīr Navāyī’s (d. 1501) works…

During the course of their history Hungarians (Magyars) had many connections with various peoples of the Turkic world.   They are supposed to have…

The Kushan kingdom is one of the greatest states of antiquity.   In the 1st and early 3rd century AD, along with such giants as the Roman Empire,…

On the whole, the history of Kushan statehood can be divided into two important periods, with Kanishka’s reign as the dividing line between them. In…

The first Hungarian scholar who became interested in texts written in the Chaghatay (Old Uzbek) literary language was Ármin Vámbéry (1832 – 1913).   Though…

Clothing of any people differs in its unique originality, indicates the climatic and social conditions in which this people lives.   It is a kind…

The most diverse types of jewellery on display in the Russian Museum of Ethnography (RME) collection are Bukhara, Samarkand and Tashkent jewellery, and…

The first expedition of the Russian State Ethnographic Museum to Central Asia occurred in 1900.   This expedition was led by S.M. Dudin, an artist…

Some of the illustrated manuscripts from Ulugbek’s atelier (kitabkhana) in Samarkand were identified and described.   First of all the first page…

The extremely interesting manuscript entitled Mi‘raj-nama is as important for linguists as for art historians and historians of religions. The discovery…

The Raza Library is also called the “Taj Mahal of Books”.   This library is located in the city of Rampur (Uttar Pradesh, India) - a kind of Indian…

The history of the skullcap goes into deep antiquity.   Witnesses of this are preserved wall paintings of the 6th – 7th c enturies, early medieval…

One of the prominent, dramatic painters of the Uzbek avant-garde represented in the collection of the Museum is M. Kurzin. The artist with a tragic…

In the collection of the State Museum of Arts, there are magnificent works by A. Volkov, dated back to the 1920s, when the spirit of innovation in his…

In the 1920s – 1930s, much attention was paid to the Library’s work on bibliography. It was during those years that its staff created major bibliographic…

It is common knowledge that the so-called “Heraus” coinage series are extremely important for the reconstruction of the early stage of the Kushan state…

In 1893, Pavel Tretyakov was elected as a member of the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts and awarded the title of Honorary Citizen of Moscow.   In…

The State Tretyakov Gallery is among the largest museums of the world.   The Gallery is named after its founder, Moscow merchant and textile manufacturer,…

It is known that Sultan Ghiyas ud-din Balban ruled Delhi from 1266 to 1287.   During this period, the production of handmade paper became widespread.…

In the late 19th – early 20th centuries begins the process of Europeanization of the Central Asian region.   The region’s integration into the Russian…

We now come to the complex question of the location of one of the five xihou of the Da Yuezhi in Bactria – the xihou of Guishuang (the “Guishuang” or “Kuei-shuang”…