Sitora and Mokhi-Khosa Palace

It is the only remained sample of bukharan emir country palaces. Sitora and Mokhi-Khosa Palace was quartered on two territories. Old palace of Abdul-Akhad-khan (1892) is a traditional three-house complex with one- and two-storey building in the spirit of bukharian dwelling houses.

New Sayid-Alim-khan Palace (1917) has pavilion, some isolated yards, thrown about in large park, they have right-angled lay-out “chorbag”, “birun” - is for spectacles; “darun” – reception-room; “garem”- main apartment, “khazina” - store-house, hayvonatkhona, zoogarden and isolated cottages. You should pay a special attention to the “White hall”, its walls are decorated with tracery fretwork on ganch, drawed on mirrors, made out by famous Bokharan master Shirin Muradov. Building one of his emir palaces, he injured his hands by frostbite forever.

Palace villas and arbours between park lawns built in 1917-1918, have the seal of European architecture and eastern style. So the first palace was built in eastern and European style. In this hall there is an exposition of things, which were presented to Bukharan khans by different ambassadors. In next palace you can see a gold-embroidery chapans of bokharan emirs, implemented in the beginning of 20 century (in the beginning of the century only men has right to embroider chapans in gold, that is why all clothes, presented in the hall, was made by men). Besides emir chapans clothes of different families presented, by clothes amount you may judge family status. Passing the garden paths, you get to “maidenly pond, near it is a pavilion, where khan concubines lived. Straight before the pond there is summer khan arbor, where he spent his leisure.