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• Treasuring The Archaeological Museum In Termez 2 years ago Little city of Termez, nestled way down by the Amu Darya river and Afghanistan, has one of the better museums in Tashkent. It's all about location and Termez is in the center - a sort of intersection crossed by multiple religious movements - all at the whims of Silk Road peeps.Welcome! The...
• Digging The Dancer Tamara Khanum 2 years ago Finally, a house museum dedicated to someone other than a broody writer. Swing it, baby! Tamara Khanum was a famous dancer, daring to frolic on stage without donning the traditional, body covering robe, a paranja. The Madonna of Uzbekistan in the 1920s.The main room of the house museum, now a hall...
• A House Sergei Yesenin Visited 2 years ago Why stop at making museums out of houses where writers lived? Visited is good enough, right? Behold the Sergei Yesenin museum in Tashkent. Why? It seems the acclaimed Russian poet, Yesenin, visited his buddy, Alexander Shiryaevets, there in Tashkent in May 1921. Boom, museum to you!Perhaps Yesenin...
• Visiting The House Of Russian Writer Sergey Borodin 2 years ago Another day in Tashkent, another writer's house to visit. How about Sergey Borodin? Born: 1902, Moscow. A childhood in Belyaev. Most famous for writing the historical works, "Dmitry Donskoi" and "The Stars Over Samarkand." Moved to Tashkent in 1951 and died at his home in 1974. The End.Big Dining...
• The House Of The Poet G'afur G'ulom 2 years ago You've read his great works, Shum Bola and Yodgor. No? Neither have James and Sarah. But visited his grand house, now a museum? Yes!Uzbekistan is big on preserving the homes of great writers, poets, politicians, leaders, anyone who left behind a perfectly good apartment crammed with books and knick...

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