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Mausoleum of a noble lady on Shakhi-i-Zinda.

Packaged tour in Samarkand.

"Who studied the sciences, but did not apply them to the case, as if the one who dug the aryk, and did not sow the field, or sow, and did not use the crop"

Alisher Navoi.

Hop-on, hop-off bus tour in Samarkand.

Next to the Nameless Mausoleum is the mausoleum of the noble lady, 1360 - 1361, a certain noble maiden. The decor of both is dominated by carved glazed terracotta with a complex ornament of geometric, vegetative and epigraphic character with the prevalence of blue tonality.

Enlightener:
G.A. Pugachenkova.

Photos by
Alexander Petrov.