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Bukhara UZ - Merchant Chodschajew house 06 by Daniel Mennerich

The house was built 1891, to a rich trader Ubaydulla Xoʻjayev from Buxoro who exported coats of Karakul sheep resident in Uzbekistan to Russia. Here lived till 1925 also his son Fayzulla Xoʻjayev who had prepared together the opposition against emir Alim Khan with the Bolshevik and became after his escape of 1920 chairpersons of the council of ministers of the new-founded People's Republic Bukhara. The Xoʻjayev house exists of different wings grouped around an inner courtyard in which residential rooms, sleeping rooms and stock rooms were. The house a porch has to the inner courtyard in the form of Iwan with a wooden roof supported by slender columns. Under the living rooms are particularly lifted out a winter room with a big stove and a spring room whose windows are especially high. In the main tract lies the white hall which is decorated richly with coloured mural paintings. He served for the receipt of guests and for the celebration of parties.
People's Houses (Russian: Народный дом) were originally leisure and cultural centres built with the intention of making art and cultural appreciation available to the working classes. The first establishment of this type appeared in Tomsk, Russia in ... Read further
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