Palace of the Emir of Bukhara (Zheleznovodsk)

The Bukhara emir Seyid-Ahad-Bogodur-Khan often visited the Caucasian mineral waters and decided to acquire a summer residence. In 1905, at the highest command, a plot of land with an area of ​​1.7 square fathoms (0.77 ha) was allocated to his property. Designed by civil engineer Vladimir Nikolaevich Semenov , erected by the chief architect of the Caucasian Mineral Waters Ivan Ivanovich Baikov and civilian architect V.F. Zimmerman ^{[1] [3]} . The palace was built over five years (1907-1912), becoming the summer residence of the Emir of Bukhara in the Caucasian Mineral Waters ^{[4] [5]} . On the occasion of the completion of construction, the Bikes and Zimmerman ordered a silver dish for 200 rubles to offer “bread and salt” to the new owner, the emir of Tura-Jan-Mirza-Alim-Khan ^[3] . He became the new emir of Bukhara in 1910 after the death of his father ^[6] . Preoccupied with the unrest at home and considering the death of a worker during the construction of the palace a bad omen ^[3] , in 1913 he transferred the building to the “Humanitarian Society of Empress Maria Fedorovna ” in memory of the 300th anniversary of the reign of the Romanov dynasty ^{[4] [7]} . The emir’s cottage was given under the “charity sanatorium for women pedagogical staff” ^[3] .

In 1912, new Upper Mineral Baths for 30 cabins (60 baths) were commissioned by the architect A. Kuznetsov ^[1] . For his work, the architect was awarded a golden cigarette case with a diamond eagle. The sanatorium, which opened here in 1914, interrupted its work with the outbreak of the First World War , when it began to perform the functions of the infirmary ^[3] .

After the 1917 revolution, the building was again used as a sanatorium. Since 1920, the Tsusstrakh health resort with 80 beds has been located in the palace building. In the 1930-1950s, the sanatorium No. 41 of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions functioned here, and in the early 1960s the name was changed to “Drummer” ^[3] . During the Second World War, the emir’s former cottage was damaged during the military operations in the North Caucasus in 1942-1943 ^[2] , and hospital No. 2164/5435 ^{[3] was} located in the surviving building. The palace building in the 1970s became part of the sanatorium. E. Telman ^[4] .

By the decision of the Executive Committee of the Stavropol Territory Council of People’s Deputies dated 10/01/1981 No. 702 “Northern building of the sanatorium named after E. Telman (former cottage of the Emir of Bukhara), where K. Zetkin had a rest in 1924, and M. I. Ulyanova and N. K. Krupskaya had a rest in 1929 ”was declared a historical monument of federal significance ^[8] .

In 2017, the palace building was transferred to one of the companies operating in the territory of the Caucasian Mineral Waters for a rental of a hotel for a period of 49 years ^{[9] [10]} .

The main building is a two-story brick building of a palace type, created in the " pseudo-Moorish style and has the basic features of a country Art Nouveau ", being an eclectic mix ^[1] . The main facade consists of a rectangular tower with a balcony ( minaret ), a peshtak and a corner square tower with a dome and a porch ^[11] . The masters of Bukhara and Khorezm performed intricate carvings in the form of national Uzbek ornaments, decorated the walls with ceramic plates ^[1] with floral ornaments (“arabesques”) ^[3] . The main entrance is decorated in the form of a semicircular arcade on cast-iron columns with Moorish capitals and a stepped base. A stone staircase in several marches decorated with sculptures of lions leads to it ^{[12] [13]} .

The palace has a complex layout with many stairs, corridors and passages. In the front part there are rooms intended for audiences. They preserved the decoration of the ceilings, and a large fireplace with tiles survived in the living room ^[4] . The ensemble was rebuilt several times, due to which the openwork drawbridge leading to the office premises was replaced with a closed corridor, and a window with modern slots was built into the facade wall on the 1st floor. The courtyard is distorted by the rectangle of the sanatorium club premises ^[2] .

On the estate’s territory there was a harem building, as well as a number of outbuildings (stable, glaciers, rooms for servants, etc.) ^{[13] [14]} . Around the estate itself, a cast-iron fence was erected, in the southeastern part of which the builders built an entrance portal with a rectangular opening and wooden doors. Above the entrance, “an inscription befitting this place was made in Arabic script ” ^[12] , meaning “Welcome!” ^[2] .

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• Boglachev S.V. Summer Palace of the Emir of Bukhara // Architecture of Old Zheleznovodsk / S.V.Boglachev. - Pyatigorsk: Snow, 2010 .-- S. 370-383. - 479 p. - ISBN 978-5-903129-23-2 .
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