The house museum of Fayzulla Khodzhayev🕌

Our today trip is to The house museum of Fayzulla Khodzhayev. And our guides are Nigina and Kamola😍✈

 The house-museum of Fayzulla Khodzhayev is a bright example of architecture of the XIX century, famous not only for its owner – a rich millionaire merchant, but also for its magnificent decoration, resembling a luxury hotel. Today it is a cult place where you can touch the history and culture of the late XIX-XX centuries, the opportunity to see the merchant life of those times, rare examples of furniture, interior and art.

The house-museum of Fayzulla Khodzhayev is located in the center of Bukhara. Its owner was first Ubaydullo Khoja Kasym Khodjaev – a famous merchant, and then the house passed to his son-heir Fayzulla Khodjaev. The house was purchased in the late 80s of the XIX century, it was a large plot with an area of three hectares. On this square, the merchant built several houses, counting on his large family.

The house consists of two parts: the male part and the female part. In addition, there are rooms for household needs, a large living room of the "mekhmonkhona", small living rooms, balconies. Each room is decorated with carved wood, antiques, exclusive furniture, rare decoration. In many rooms you can see expensive dishes of those years, household items, clothes, painted vases and many other luxury items.

Fayzulla Khodjaev (1896-1938) did not inherit the entrepreneurial streak from his father, he was a statesman, was engaged in promoting the ideas of Jadidism, later he headed the Bukhara People's Soviet Republic. In 1937, he was arrested in Tashkent in a controversial case, in 1938 he was sentenced to death and shot in Moscow. In 1965, he was completely rehabilitated.
Today in the house-museum you can see echoes of the former heyday of the Bukhara emirate, several expositions telling about the life of the father and son of the Khojaevs. 

Among the valuable exhibits of the museum, one can note porcelain dishes, Uzbek musical instruments, elegant clothes of Bukharians. Visiting the extraordinary house-museum, you will be pleasantly surprised by the ethnographic exhibitions, magnificent decoration and examples of the luxurious life of Bukhara.

Making a trip to Uzbekistan, to one of the most mysterious cities – Bukhara, do not neglect a chance to visit Fayzulla Khodjaev Museum.

House-Museum of Fayzulla Khodjaev, located in the old part of Bukhara, in Goziyon neighborhood, is the bright example of the architecture of the XIX century. Fayzulla Khodjaev Museum memorializes one of the eminent politicians of Uzbekistan, whose active work fell on the beginning of the XX century.

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.

Fayzulla Khodjaev’s father was a merchant- millionaire, who made a fortune on the export of karakul. When Fayzulla was 11 he together with his father went to Russia and until 1911 had been studied in Moscow. In 1912 the father died, and Fayzulla got a part of father’s property, including the house in old Bukhara neighborhood. It was quite clear, that faith and convictions of young Fayzulla reflected the interests of national capital, competing with the largest capitalist Khanate – Amir of Bukhara. Hence there was an aspiration to reforms and way to power by means of revolution. Fayzulla Khodjaev actively opposed the anti-people reign of the last Bukhara Amir.

Fayzulla Khodjaev engaged in governing of Bukhara region, but during mass repressions of 1937-1938 he was executed.

In Uzbekistan people revere Fayzulla Khodjaev's memory, and that is why Fayzulla Khodjaev Memorial Museum was established.

This historical building has the excellent condition, and is the outstanding place of interest itself. House-Museum of Fayzulla Khodjaev has two yards: the outside yard – “men's” and inside one - “woman's”. All walls of the building and interiors of the dwelling are richly decorated with paintings on wood and alabaster, cutting on ganch and plaster. The aggregate house space is three hectares.

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