Seeing The Writers On The Wall At The Literature Museum

Writing is not a visual medium. If you open a museum dedicated to local literature, what do you do once you've crammed every case with open books? Fill the wall space with portraits of the greats. At the Literature Museum in Tashkent, get to know your moody writers.

Traditional wardrobe and props are good features to have in your portrait. Here's Xayrulloh Xo'Qandiy, all decked out in his chapan robe, sitting on a tapchan, having tea.

Looking all stately with your medals and big desk is a good look, Sadriddin Ayni. A different take, the writer as relaxed, causal man. Enjoy that book, Turob To'la.

Women are not represented in the same numbers as the men. Oydin gets the formal treatment, fancy in her red suit in front of the rich tapestry.

Writer Shukrullo strikes the pensive, it's so hard to write, pose. Here's Oynek. Did someone just burn his toast?

For Mirtemir, writing is a reclining, casual sport.

Picturing Alisher Navoi At The Literature Museum

Alisher Navoi is one of the most famous figures in Uzbekistan, a Silk Road era poet, author, linguist, politician, mystic and gardener. OK, not sure about his gardening prowess. Seems possible.

Tashkent has a nice museum with a literature theme, most of it devoted to Navoi. Big props to the gentleman known as the father of Turkic literature. The museum is rooms and rooms with cases of books - about what one would expect in a place devoted to literature. What else to display?

Portraits of the esteemed Alisher Navoi. A lot of them. Here's a small selection, every pose, age imaginable.