Sitora-i Mokhi Khosa 🕌🤩

 Practice time🤩🤩🤩

Day 6💃🌟

Hellooooo everyone✌️

Our today's practice was in Sitora-i Mokhi Khosa🕌😍

And now i want to explain you our today's day, it has a lot of joy and funny pictures.

Sitora-i Mokhi Khosa.🕌🤩

Sitora-i Mokhi Khosa 🕌😍

Our today's presenters were Sevara😍 and Dildora😍

They gave us very exactly and necessary informations about this palace🤓📚📝

Before the entering they started giving informations📚

Arabic language 🤩

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Now, i want to start giving some informations about Sitora-i Mokhi Khosa, which i know exactly from today's practice.

Remember:

And one thing i want to remind, read the information with carefully which i give and there exercises related to this information at the end of my blog.

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In the mid-XIX century Emir of Bukhara Nasrullah Khan decided to build a new country seat for himself. To choose the coolest place not to suffer from summer heat, the architects made recourse to an old method - dressed muttons were put on the potential sites of construction. The place, where the meat got spoiled last, was chosen for the construction of the suburban pearl of Bukhara.

History of Sitora-i Mokhi Khosa.

Several decades later, another emir of Bukhara Mir Sayyd Muhammad Alim Khan initiated the construction of a new palace there. A legend has it that, Emir devoted the palace to his wife Sitora. The construction work which lasted several years resulted in the residence of unprecedented beauty. The Bukhara architects having trained in Russia managed to combine oriental and western styles in their creation. After a while the Emir’s wife died, and her name was given to the palace. It was named Sitorai Mokhi-Khosa, translated from Tajik as “Star, like the Moon”, and this name was preserved to this day. Unfortunately, the Sitorai Mokhi-Khosa also shared the fate of the first palace – it was destroyed.

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The extant Sitorai Mokhi-Khosa Palace was built in 1912-1918, by order of the last Emir of Bukhara Mir Sayyd Muhammad Alim Khan. The construction involved the best Bukhara masters of the time, along with two Russian engineers Margulis and Sakovitch.

The palace main building consists of several reception halls and emir’s private rooms. Special attention was given to White Hall, decorated by the famous master usto Shirin Muradov who was subsequently perpetuated in a monument installed in the territory of the summer residence. White Hall was decorated with ganch, laid on walls covered with mirrors. Any of the patterns was never repeated. It is worth noting that mirrors in the Sitorai Mokhi-Khosa Palace are in huge amount. There you can see Venetian mirrors, Japanese mirrors set in fancy frames, and even trellis, which creates a reflection, repeated 40 times.

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In addition, the summer palace includes a tea room, small minaret, and guest house, richly incrusted with braid gold. Each place has its own stories and legends, one can talk for hours.

In 1927, shortly after the fall of the Emirate of Bukhara, the palace was transformed into a museum. Its exposition was periodically changed. But today, it houses the Museum of Arts and Crafts. The exhibition includes palace furniture of the XIX-XX centuries, jewelry and golden-embroidered products made by Bukhara masters, objet d’art from Russian and Japanese porcelain of XIV-XX centuries.

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The summer palace consists of 3 buildings, set in rose gardens and surrounded by courtyards, a Persian-influenced style that harks back to Timurid days.

As you enter through the opulent gate, the outer courtyard harbours a bookshop (formerly the emir’s wine cellar – yes) and servants’ quarters. The inner courtyard contains some of the Emir’s private possessions.

It is now the water in the Sitorai Hauz (Old Pond) is green and muddy, but in those days it was as clear as a tear, and wives and concubines bathed there. Considering that the emir was the only man entering this part of the estate, the imagination immediately draws nude figures in the water ... but no, according to the Muslim canons, a woman should not be exposed even in front of her husband. However, whether these canons were observed here - the history not mentioned, because there was no one to trace it, and the emir returned to his native Turkestan from decadent Petersburg. According to some rumors, they were bathing totally naked, and this was the point - the Emir was throwing an apple to the concubine he liked most as a sign that he wanted to spend the night with her ... but even without clothes some managed to bring an apple with them. On the shore of the pond there is a carved arbor, judging by the crescents it served as a summer mosque, and it seems that this is the only wooden (and not wooden-clay) mosque in Uzbekistan:

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The residence of the last Emir of Bukhara, where, today as a hundred years ago, peacocks are swaggering about, salutes the visitors in the reflections of its former magnificence, as though still available to receive royalties and overseas ambassadors.

peacocks😍

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And we also meet 2 tourists💃, they are from Spain.🤩

I can't remember his name😂🤭. But he was very funny and kind person. He took photo us several times, i think he posted it in his instagram🧐😳. It was very good time with him.🤗

With tourist💫😌

Ending of our practice.😢

With coursemates😍🤗

During this day i was very very happy😃💃(you can see from photo😂✌️) and i satisfied travelling in Mokhi Khosa 🤩🌟

With Guli😂♥️

And we.♥️♥️♥️

Finally, i have one task to you for strengthen your knowledge.

Fill in the gaps.

1.Several decades later, another emir of Bukhara........... initiated the construction of a new palace there.

2.It was named Sitorai Mokhi-Khosa, translated from Tajik as ............. and this name was preserved to this day.

3.Special attention was given to White Hall, decorated by the famous master.............. who was subsequently perpetuated in a monument installed in the territory of the summer residence.

4.In............. shortly after the fall of the Emirate of Bukhara, the palace was transformed into a museum.

5.The summer palace consists of .............buildings.

Bye bye👋👋👋