Preserving Painter Ural Tansykbayev's Home In Tashkent

A nice way to get a peek at how people lived in Ye Olde Times is to pop into a house museum. Sure, the person who lived there may be famous and you get a good dose of an accomplished biography. You also get some nice period architecture and furnishings.

Ural Tansykbayev was a painter, born 1904, died 1974. He's considered a biggie of Soviet era painters, a leader in communist modernism and a good party member. Tansykbayev was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1963.

The painter and his work.

More works and some of the objects in his studio space. Tools of his trade.

Vintage communist-era living room. Swanky.

Bedroom and a little sun room, with a collection of the Soviet version of National Geographic.

One of Tansykbayev's works around WWII, ever the patriot painter.