Esfendijar

Esfendijar († 1920 ) was Khan of the Khiva Khanate .

Live and act

Esfendijar Khan ruled the khanate belonging to the Russian Empire from 1910 - Khiva was a protectorate . During World War I , he sent over a quarter of a million rubles to the governor of Russian Turkestan in the hope that it would bring him sympathy with the Russian central government.

He was the penultimate Khan of Khiva before the People's Republic of Khorezmia was established in the year of his death . For example, Said Islam Khodja († 1913) was a vizier under Esfendijar .

In the reign Esfendijars were, for example, today the World Heritage Ichan Qal'а belonging Memorial Pahlawan Mahmud , in which necropolis extended the Khans is. He had a two-story Qori khans built on the west wall of the courtyard and a summer mosque open to the court of the dead on the east wall . He also had his crypt prepared in the Qori khans while he was still alive . He was not buried in this, however, because he died outside the city of Khiva in 1920 as a result of an overthrow by the Turkmen leader Jumaid Khan and following a custom it was not allowed to bring the deceased through the city ​​walls and gates of Chiwa .

literature

• Alexey Arapov: The Historical Monuments of Uzbekistan . Tashkent Samarkand Bukhara Chiva Shahrisabz. SMI-ASIA, Tashkent 2016, ISBN 978-9943-17-075-9 , Chiva, p. 101-103 & 114 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Seymour Becker: Russia's Protectorates in Central Asia: Bukhara and Khiva, 1865-1924 , London: Routledge 2004, p. 181.