Therefore, it has been dubbed an open-air museum city. Today, Khiva is becoming one of the centers of world tourism. E. Zhelyabuzhsky, a Russian traveler, wrote about this city in his book Essays and the Conquest of Khiva, published in Moscow in 1875:
“Central Asia, where the Khiva Khanate is located, in hoary antiquity was the cradle of all our Indo-European-Aryan tribes, i.e. of most of the Europeans, Indians and Persians. Our forefathers, the Slavs, also came to Russia from Central Asia. As is known, Tsar Alexander the Great undertook his famous military campaign to Central Asia. Khiva, according to legend, was founded three centuries before the Christian Era.”
Georg Bitzmann, a German traveler, noted:
“I have visited many countries of the world, but I’m still lost in admiration of Khiva’s majesty that I saw for the first time. Look, there are two fortresses – Ichan-Kala and Deshan-Kala located in one city. The grandiose beauty of the age-old monuments will remain in our memory for the rest of our lives.”
For a century now, the Khiva Museum has been carrying out a great work of collecting and preserving unique objects of nature and history of the country, demonstrating them to tourists from all over the world, responsibly preserving them for future generations in their unchanged appearance and grandeur.
You can learn more about the topic in the book-album "The Collection of the Ichan-Kala State Museum-Reserve" (Volume XLVII) in the series "Сultural legacy of Uzbekistan in the world collections".
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