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Ancient Khorezm. Toprak Kala Fortress

The land of ancient Khorezm, scorched by the sun, keeps the secrets of abandoned fortresses for thousands years. One of such fortresses, Toprak Kala, the cradle of ancient Khorezm civilization and an inexhaustible source of riddles and speculation, may have been the capital of ancient Khorezm for centuries.

Date of appearance of Toprak Kala fortress 1 - 4 centuries AD

The area of the ancient settlement is about 120 ha

Probably Toprak Kala was the ancient capital during the reign of the Afrigid dynasty

Toprak Kala means “Fortress covered with mud”

During the excavation of Toprak Kala, the ancient Khorezmian script had been discovered

The palace consisted of 150 rooms and halls, about 40 m high

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Traditional Costume of Uzbek Women in Khorezm, late 19th and 20th century

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Come to see Khorezm

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Die Araber schrieben von "zehntausend Schlössern" in Choresmien. Heute sind noch die Überreste von 50 dieser Lehmburgen zu finden, welche bis 400 v.Chr. zurück reichen. In ca. 8h haben wir 6 davon mit dem Taxi besucht.

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History museum

Experts and the world press are increasingly agree that the State Art Museum of the Republic of Karakalpakstan. Savitsky, which has the second largest population and the collection of Russian avant-garde in the world is the best art collections in the Asian region. The British newspaper “The Guardian” called the collection “one of the greatest in the world.”

SavitskyVeduschie Western art – C. Douglas, J. Bolt, A. Flaker et al. – Said that the basis for the revision of the history of Russian and Soviet art, of course, should be the collection of the Museum of Savitsky. For an unprecedented short period of time, the Nukus Museum turned into numerous meetings, numbering about 90 thousand units. This fact has no analogue in the world practice of museum collecting. This achievement was made possible thanks to the genius of one man – Igor Savitsky, founder of the Nukus Museum.

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Russian artist Igor Savitsky (1915-1984) was born in Kiev. He first went to Karakalpakstan in 1950 as an artist with the famous Khorezm archeological and ethnographic expedition. Fascinated by the culture and people of the steppe, he stayed after the expedition in Karakalpakstan, methodically collecting Karakalpak art objects and textiles. Soon after, he began to collect works of Central Asian artists, and later, Russian avant-garde art works that the Soviet government rejected and destroyed. As a result of this work, the museum now has about 20 thousand paintings, as well as 70 thousand carpets, coins, jewelry and other artifacts from ancient times to the present.

Igor Savitsky and Central Asia

Savitsky first experienced Central Asia during the Second World War, when he was evacuated to Samarkand. Despite hunger, disease, wartime difficulties, he was fascinated by the region. In Samarkand, Sawicki met with such famous artists as Robert Falk. In 1950, Savitsky gladly accepted the offer to participate in the Khorezm archeological and ethnographic expedition and from 1950 to 1957, working as an artist of the expedition. Sawicki also goes for Karakalpakstan, visiting villages where he is faced with pieces of folk art and crafts. Shortly thereafter, he began to collect these items and send them to the collections of museums in Moscow and St. Petersburg. It was at this time he throws an apartment in the center of Moscow on Arbat Street and moved to Nukus.

SavistkyV end Savitsky was able to convince the authorities that Karakalpakstan needed a museum of art and in 1966 he was appointed director of the Nukus Museum. Unfortunately, the painting Sawicki left to become director of the museum. He said it is impossible to combine the two simultaneously. During these years, Savitsky was then independently led archaeological excavation sites of ancient Khorezm. Savitsky was able to realize his dream – to create an unusual museum, not just a copy of the Tretyakov Gallery. He also wanted to show young Karakalpak artists in what way were their predecessors in Moscow and Tashkent in 1920-1930 – years. Initially Savitsky collected the works of artists linked to Central Asia (A. Isupov, L. Kramarenko, N. Ulyanov, M. Voloshin) and stood at the origins of Central Asian art school (R. Mazel), in particular, the Uzbek (Volkov, Kurzin M., N. Karahan, W. Tansykbaev V. Ufimtsev and others), and later expanded the range of artists represented in the collection.

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As a witness of what is happening in the cultural policy since the days of Stalinism, Sawicki just could not pass by and ignore the whole layer of the dying Russian culture in the 1960s. Igor Savitsky begins to export from Moscow and other cities of the Union of hundreds of thousands of forgotten works, branded in the formalism of rogue artists in remote and “closed” Nukus. Thanks to the trust, which he managed to win the local authorities, in 10-15 years, Savitsky assembled a collection of the museum. The irony was that despite the fact that most of the items in the collection were officially banned, it is paying for the purchase of all public money, although the search for funds for new acquisitions, and remained his constant concern.

East Nations Art Museum – Moscow

Finally, recognition

Over time, the fame to the Nukus collection starts to grow in the years 1968-1969 in Moscow, at the Museum of the East, an exhibition, followed by a series of exhibitions on the city of the Soviet Union. Savitsky’s authority has grown so much that it considered to be in Moscow. The Ministry of Culture of the USSR begins to provide financial support, as well as access to funds from other collections (including the collection of Fernand Leger).

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Nevertheless, the difficulties and hardships that characterize adulthood Savitsky taken their toll. He worked tirelessly, often neglecting his health. In his later years, Savitsky was treated at the prestigious Moscow hospital, where his chamber was converted into an office and where Sawicki continued his scientific description, wrote articles and worked to expand the collection of the Museum.

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July 27, 1984 Savitsky died in a Moscow hospital. Moscow friends, artists, critics said goodbye to the Savitsky State Museum of Oriental Art, openly admitting his achievements. At the request of Savitsky, his body was buried at the Russian cemetery Nukus.

The Museum Today

This official recognition of the activities of Savitsky and his collection came after 1991 when Nukus became expensive foreign art critics, journalists, diplomats and businessmen working in Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan acquired independence. Correspondents world’s leading broadcasters, journalists, well-known publications began to tell the amazing story of Savitsky and paradoxical facts from the history of his museum. Savitsky Collection recognition as one of the most exciting museums continues to grow.

Hidden from the World – A Lost Treasure in the Desert – Nukus Museum History museum Experts and the world press are increasingly agree that the State Art Museum of the Republic of Karakalpakstan.

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