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Sadriddin Ayni House Museum

Samarkand home of the writer Sadriddin Ayni (1878–1954), where he wrote Dokhunda and Slaves; a museum since 1967, near the Registan.

MuseumsFounded 1967

About the place

Sadriddin Ayni (1878–1954) was a writer and scholar who is regarded as a founder of modern Tajik literature and also wrote in Uzbek. He lived in this house at 7B Registon Street in Samarkand, and it was here that he wrote the novels Dokhunda and Slaves and his volumes of memoirs.

The house was built in the late 18th or early 19th century and enlarged in the 1930s. It opened as a museum on 19 May 1967 and now belongs to the Samarkand State Museum-Reserve. You can see his study, family rooms and manuscripts. It is open Monday to Friday, 9:00 to 18:00; allow forty minutes.

Why go

  • Where Dokhunda and Slaves were written
  • Old Samarkand courtyard house
  • A few minutes from the Registan

Sources (1)

  1. 1.en.wikipedia.org

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