Masters of Turkmenistan

The dutar, a two-stringed plucked lute, is the main voice of Turkmen music. For centuries bakhshi singers have performed epics and songs to its sound.

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The story will be added after talking with the artist.

The story will be added after talking with the artist.

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A Turkmen bride in red. A wedding outfit was assembled over years: an embroidered robe, a silver headdress, heavy breast ornaments regarded both as protective amulets and as dowry.

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The story will be added after talking with the artist.

The story will be added after talking with the artist.

The story will be added after talking with the artist.

The story will be added after talking with the artist.

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The epic of Gorogly is known from Turkmenistan to Azerbaijan and Turkey. In several versions this was the hero’s name in his youth: Rovshen, son of a wise man blinded by a cruel khan.

Before becoming Gorogly, defender of the poor and invincible horseman, the young man must pass his trials. On the canvas he walks through the crowd, past elephants and armed warriors, as if an Eastern court were weighing his every step.

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The story will be added after talking with the artist.

The story will be added after talking with the artist.

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Baybars was born in the Kipchak steppe, sold into slavery as a child and taken to Egypt. There he became a Mamluk warrior, and later Sultan of Egypt and Syria.

In 1260, at Ain Jalut, the Mamluk army halted the Mongol advance westward. In the painting his face rises above the pyramids and the Sphinx while the army moves below: the fate of a man of the steppe who came to rule Egypt.

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