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 knacks. The houses are a great conduit to the country's past.
G'ulom's downstairs study. Various implements for high achieving child education stuffed into the room: chess set, globe, music stand, writing desk. Get to work, comrade child.
Family photographs and the music room.
One of several rooms with a writing desk for G'ulom. The desks are scattered throughout the house like ash trays.
Tools of production. Loving the big pipe stand and the Russian typewriter in a bag.
Another room, another desk. Study? Den? Library?
Room details of a sculpture and artwork in a bookcase and a portrait of the poet.
Bedroom, looking a little like an Uzbek version of the bedroom set on the sitcom Lucy. Why settle for a couple of tomes on a nightstand when you can have a whole bookcase of treasures within reach?
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