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Sitorai- and Mokhi-khosa Palace
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. |