Visiting The Home Of Sattar Yerubayev

Central Asia loves its house museums. In Turkistan, Kazakhstan, the writer, Sattar Yerubayev's house is now a museum, semi-filled with a random collection of family artifacts and mementos. Yerubayev was active in the 1930s, writing socialist poems and a novel, My Peers, focusing on working class Kazakhs in the coal industry.

The humble house, built in the typical Tsar era brown brick style. Welcome.

Inside, some words, some objects. How about a random yurt scene? Note to self, don't stack the table so high you can't see your dining companion.

Dueling portraits and a landscape. And some theater chairs.

Boy toys, tools to produce various media.

Another room, another mishmash of artifacts. Textile portraits are always impressive.