The Fayzulla Khodjaev House Museum is dedicated to the memory of one of the brightest political personalities in the history of Bukhara and is located in Bukhara. F. Khodjaev was the leader of the Jadids-Young Bukharians, a patron of the arts, as well as a fighter for equal rights.
The museum is located in the house of F. Khodjaev’s father and it is a magnificent example of Bukhara residential architecture of the XIX century.
The area of the house is 3 hectares and consists of three parts: economic, male and female halves. Aivans, living rooms, living rooms are decorated with magnificent carvings and paintings on wood.
The exposition dedicated to the life and work of Khodjaev contains a few documents, photographs, books and other items that survived after the repressions.
F.Khodjaev headed the Bukhara People’s Soviet Republic, and in 1925-1937 he was the first Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Uzbek SSR, one of the chairmen of the CEC of the USSR, a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan.
In July 1937, he was arrested and, together with a group of prominent revolutionaries and party workers, appeared at the trial in Moscow for the so-called Right-Trotskyist bloc. In March 1938, he was shot.
