Ayyubov
House
Besh-Tash

Life

• 1869Born in the upper Talas valley to a family of Christian herders; apprentice in the icon workshop of St Janyl.
• 1897Auditor at the Imperial Academy of Arts, St Petersburg, until 1903; takes the surname Ayyubov.
• 1904Builds the house at Besh-Tash.
• 1907First show, Tashkent; Verny follows in 1910.
• 1913Gives The White Rider Shows the Way to the cathedral.
• 1916Shelters the refugees of the uprising and draws their flight.
• 1917Chairs the National Council's commission on schools and culture.
• 1920Exile in Ghulja, Xinjiang, until 1925.
• 1926Teaches at Talas's first art studio, illustrates the Latin-script schoolbooks, paints banners and vestments in secret for Mar Timotheos Alimbekov.
• 1937Arrested in October; shot in Talas on 14 November. Grave unknown.
• 1957Rehabilitated.
• 1969The house opens as a memorial museum.
• 1992His religious works come out of hiding.
• 1999The road washes out; the museum closes.
• 2013Restored by the Körköm Foundation; reopened on 24 August.