Aini Sadriddin is a famous Tajik writer. He was born in 1878 and died in 1954. He was a prolific writer of poetry and of heroic peasantry who where unleashed from the despotic enslavement of the Manquit dynasty by the revolution of 1924. This brought an end to the Bukhara Emirship rulers.
Pictures taken on a recent visit to the Sadriddin Family Museun in Dushanbe.
A photograph of Aini, his wife and children
The museum is in the house where he lived between 1953 and 1954
Aini Sadriddin lived here.
He wrote Dukhunda
Aini's Libary. Here is housed a collection of his literary output.
He wrote Slaves
His was a very ornately carved desk. There was plenty of room to spread out the manuscripts and write with a feeling of power.
He wrote The Death of the Userer
A painting showing Aini working on a new manuscript.
He wrote The Revolt of Muqanni
A selection of Aini's writings found in the DIS Library.
He wrote Adventure's of A Poor Tajik.
From his typewriter came explosives novels such as Bukhara Executioners.
Aini was the first elected President of the Tajik Academy of Sciences.
Aini Sadriddin believed that the pen was mightier than the sword.
