Marjona Ilkhomova

DAY 7

11.04.2023

Fayzulla Khujayev museum

Assalomu aleykum everyoone👋🤗

Today is our seventh practice day and the weather is good also the sun is shining☀️✨

Our todayʼs plan was going to Fayzulla Khujayev museum.

We met there at 10 oʻchlock then chatted with tourists☺️

Our teacher gave some information us about this museum

The house-complex is located in Goziyon neighborhood, the old section of the city. The house belonged to Fayzulla Khojaev's father Ubaydullokhoja, who was a rich merchant traded in karakul pelt in Russia, Germany and other countries. Fayzulla Khodjaev's house is a wonderful example of the 19th – century residential architecture.
  The total area of ​​the building is three hectares. It consists of a household section and havli darun, inside, female area and havli berun, external, male area.
The balconies, reception and living rooms of the house demonstrate splendid examples of woodcarving and wall painting. The house-museum has the following exhibitions: the ethnographic exhibition, featuring rich merchants' life of the 19th-20th centuries, exhibition devoted to the life of Fayzullo Khodjaev, the outstanding Bukharan statesman, and the “Kitchen of a Wealthy Merchant's House” exhibition .

The exhibits of special interest are the crockery items (19th c.) made in the Gardner and Kuznetsov Russian factories, oriental musical instruments of the 19th century, the silk and velvet clothes of the Bukharans of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the 19th -20th - century silver -and copperware of everyday use. 
       Fayzulla Khodjaev, is, undoubtedly, a key politician figure of Uzbek history of 1920-1930. His fantastic career and tragic final left many ambiguities, covered with discrepant myths of the XX century.
Fayzulla Khodjaev, a native of Bukhara, belonged to the richest people of Bukhara khanate. At the end of the XIX – beginning of the XX centuries there was a state of classical Asian monarchy headed by the amirs of Mangyt clan under the protectorate of the Russian Empire.

That the house has survived at all is something of a minor miracle, considering the readiness of Soviet authorities to demolish urban fabric in favor of new buildings with modern materials. Though it remains unclear, it is possible that Khodjaev's high position in the central government until 1938 might have protected the house until that point, but afterward it would have remained vulnerable. One clue is that after his death it may have been repurposed as an exhibit space—as it is now—though in a propaganda capacity, to showcase how the old lords of the pre-Soviet days lived lives of luxuries while the common people starved. One clue to this is that even now the house is locally described as the "Home of a wealthy merchant" rather than identifying it in Khodjaev's name. Yet here, too, there is ambiguity as Khodjaev himself remains deeply controversial. He was, to his detractors, a "traitor" in the sense that he viewed a Russian takeover as an acceptable alternative to the despotic leadership of the Khans. To his apologists, even if his methods were harsh, his aim was ultimately good, as he strove for a better life for his city and his people. As evidence for this, they point to his willingness to spend his own inheritance in ultimate service of the cause, and his martyrdom at the hands of Stalin. Whatever the true verdict, he was ultimately a bridge between two worlds, and only the house stands today as a testament to a certain way of life that Soviet modernity would bring to an abrupt and enduring end. in the sense that he viewed a Russian takeover as an acceptable alternative to the despotic leadership of the Khans. To his apologists, even if his methods were harsh, his aim was ultimately good, as he strove for a better life for his city and his people. As evidence for this, they point to his willingness to spend his own inheritance in ultimate service of the cause, and his martyrdom at the hands of Stalin. Whatever the true verdict, he was ultimately a bridge between two worlds, and only the house stands today as a testament to a certain way of life that Soviet modernity would bring to an abrupt and enduring end. in the sense that he viewed a Russian takeover as an acceptable alternative to the despotic leadership of the Khans. To his apologists, even if his methods were harsh, his aim was ultimately good, as he strove for a better life for his city and his people. As evidence for this, they point to his willingness to spend his own inheritance in ultimate service of the cause, and his martyrdom at the hands of Stalin. Whatever the true verdict, he was ultimately a bridge between two worlds, and only the house stands today as a testament to a certain way of life that Soviet modernity would bring to an abrupt and enduring end. they point to his willingness to spend his own inheritance in service of the cause, and his ultimate martyrdom at the hands of Stalin. Whatever the true verdict, he was ultimately a bridge between two worlds, and only the house stands today as a testament to a certain way of life that Soviet modernity would bring to an abrupt and enduring end. they point to his willingness to spend his own inheritance in service of the cause, and his ultimate martyrdom at the hands of Stalin. Whatever the true verdict, he was ultimately a bridge between two worlds, and only the house stands today as a testament to a certain way of life that Soviet modernity would bring to an abrupt and enduring end.

This day was very wonderful and interesting for all of us🙃

We knew many interesting facts about Fayzulla Khujaey

Thank you for your attention

See you soon 👋♥️