Larisa Nazarovna Dodkhudoeva (born 1947) is a

Tajikistan Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...

i art historian.

Biography

Born in

Dushanbe Dushanbe ( tg, Душанбе, ; ; russian: Душанбе) is the capital and largest city of Tajikistan. , Dushanbe had a population of 863,400 and that population was largely Tajik. Until 1929, the city was known in Russian as Dyushambe (r ...

, Dodkhudoeva is the daughter of politician

Nazarsho Dodkhudoev Nazarshoh Dodkhudoev (1915–2000) was a Soviet Tajiks, Tajik politician. He was born in Rushon, Rushan in the Mountainous Badakhshan Autonomous Velayot, MBAV. He graduated from college in 1935, a year after he started his political career by joinin ...

; her sister Lola is a historian of some repute. She graduated from the Repin Institute in

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

in 1970; eight years later she received a doctorate in

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from the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1988 she received another doctorate, this one in history, from the Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Tajikistan Academy of Sciences. She began her academic career as a researcher at the Institute in 1970, later rising to become head of the Department of South Asia, the Institute of World Economy and International Relations from 1993 until 1996; from then until 2000 she was Deputy Director of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations. More recently, she has served as Chief Researcher in the Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Tajikistan Academy of Sciences, where she has also headed the ethnographic department. During her career, Dodkhudoeva has received recognition from numerous international institutions; in 1999 she was awarded a certificate by the

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for involvement in peace and reconciliation in Tajikistan, and in 2001 she received an award from the Central European University for her cultural work. She has also received numerous grants from various entities during her career. She is a past member of the

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. Many of her publications deal with Tajik and Islamic art and culture. She has also published work in conjunction with her sister.

Selected writings

*''Tajik Artists'', Moscow, 1983 *''Nizami Poems in Medieval Persian Miniature Painting'', Moscow, 1985 *''Catalogue of the Artistically Decorated Manuscripts in the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan'', Dushanbe, 1986 *''Zoroastrian Elements in Islamic Art and Artifacts'', 1997 *''Art of Books in Central Asia and India in the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries'', Dushanbe, 2001 *''Istaravshan'', Moscow, 2002 *''Tajik Art'', Dushanbe, 2002'' Source:

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dodkhudoeva, Larisa 1947 births Living people Tajikistani art historians Tajikistani women historians Women art historians People from Dushanbe Repin Institute of Arts alumni 20th-century Tajikistani historians 21st-century Tajikistani historians 20th-century Tajikistani women writers 21st-century Tajikistani women writers