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It is the only remained sample of
bukharan emir country palaces. Sitora and Mokhi-Khosa
Palace was quartered on two territories.
Old palace of Abdul-Akhad-khan (1892) is a traditional
three-house complex with one- and two-storey building
in the spirit of bukharian dwelling houses.
New Sayid-Alim-khan Palace (1917) has pavilion, some
isolated yards, thrown about in large park, they have
right-angled lay-out “chorbag”, “birun”
- is for spectacles; “darun” – reception-room;
“garem”- main apartment, “khazina”
- store-house, hayvonatkhona, zoogarden and isolated
cottages. You should pay a special attention to the
“White hall”, its walls are decorated
with tracery fretwork on ganch, drawed on mirrors,
made out by famous Bokharan master Shirin Muradov.
Building one of his emir palaces, he injured his hands
by frostbite forever.
Palace villas and arbours between park lawns built
in 1917-1918, have the seal of European architecture
and eastern style. So the first palace was built in
eastern and European style. In this hall there is
an exposition of things, which were presented to Bukharan
khans by different ambassadors. In next palace you
can see a gold-embroidery chapans of bokharan emirs,
implemented in the beginning of 20 century (in the
beginning of the century only men has right to embroider
chapans in gold, that is why all clothes, presented
in the hall, was made by men). Besides emir chapans
clothes of different families presented, by clothes
amount you may judge family status.
Passing the garden paths, you get to “maidenly
pond, near it is a pavilion, where khan concubines
lived. Straight before the pond there is summer khan
arbor, where he spent his leisure.
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