Photographs
Plates
Ten photographs, recovered from our own website of 2004–2006 after it went offline. They are small files, so we show them smaller still, at the size where they stay sharp. For now they are all the pictures of him we have in hand.
Two of them we cannot caption.
One is a sepia studio portrait of a young man in a striped chapan, holding a long-necked lute. It is either Ziyodullo as a young man or his father Muqaddaskhon, in the years of the salon. We do not know which, so the caption describes the picture and leaves the name out.
The other shows Shahidi beside a white-haired man who looks a great deal like Aram Khachaturian. We are not sure enough to write the name under it. If you were in that room, or your mother was, tell us and we will put it back.
If you have prints, negatives, concert programmes or scores that have never been scanned, of him or the house or the instruments or a performance, they would change this page completely. Please write to us.
The plates
Ziyodullo Shahidi
PLATE I
Ziyodullo Shahidi
PLATE II
Studio portrait of a young man in a striped chapan with a long-necked lute
PLATE III
Our own page named him. Two men in this family fit the photograph and nothing we hold settles which, so we say what the picture shows and wait to be told the rest.
The same bytes were published earlier at /shahiditanbur.jpg (captured 2001-11-28) — identical SHA-256, identical size. One photograph, one record. A smaller crop of the same portrait was also served as images/ZS2.jpg. Reads as high-saturation because the print is sepia-toned, not because it is a colour photograph.
Ziyodullo Shahidi
PLATE IV
Ziyodullo Shahidi and Mirsaid Mirshakar
PLATE V
Two men at a gathering, neither identified here
PLATE VI
Our own page named both men. The second one looks like someone other than the man it named, and looking like a person is not being him. Keeping half a caption and dropping the other half would only mean choosing the name we preferred, so we name neither here. Both are in the record, and someone who was in that room may yet tell us.
Ziyodullo Shahidi and Tihon Khrennikov
PLATE VII
Ziyodullo Shahidi with his son Tolib and Dmitryi Shostakovitch
PLATE VIII
Also shown: Tolib Shahidi, son
Ziyodullo Shahidi with his granddaughter Nargis and daughter Munira
PLATE IX
Also shown: Munira Shahidi, daughter
The only recovered image naming Nargis. She shares the surname Nurulla-Khoja with Farangis in the Foundation's own 2001 contact list, but no recovered source states their relationship.
Ziyodullo Shahidi and his daughter Farangis
PLATE X
Also shown: Farangis Nurulla-Khoja, Displayed as granddaughter. The contrary caption is kept because an archive that quietly deletes its own contradictions is worth less than one that shows them. granddaughterBiography: Farangis Nurulla-Khoja (part 1) read 'Farangis Nurulla-Khoja is a granddaughter of Ziyodullo Shahidi' — the Foundation's own biography of her. granddaughterThree generations of Tajik composers of the 20th century (part III) read The 2001 essay says the same, in the same words. granddaughterМузыка Зиёдулло Шахиди на Великом шёлковом пути inferred Munira Shahidi calls her «моей дочери Фарангис Нурулла-Ходжа» — my daughter. Munira is Ziyodullo's daughter, so granddaughter follows. The source states the parent, not the grandparent; the step is ours, which is why this claim is marked inferred. daughterPhoto archive read The caption on photo page ph10 reads 'Ziyodullo Shahidi and his daughter Farangis'. Against four other readings including her mother's, this looks like a caption written in haste — but it is the Foundation's own page and is not deleted.granddaughter— sources disagree; show all 4 claims
The caption on this page calls Farangis his daughter. Every other Foundation page — biof.htm, essay1, essay3 — calls her his granddaughter, and Munira Shahidi called her «моей дочери» in 2026. The caption is recorded as a claim beside her name below, and is not silently corrected here.
Elsewhere on the site
CD cover: Ziyadullo Shakhidi — Sitorai Man
/images/CD2.jpg
Also shown: Ziyodullo Shahidi
The sleeve carries a portrait and the lines 'Sitorai Man / SONGS and ROMANCES / MAQOMS' SYMPHONY - Opera KOMDE va MADAN'. This is the disc the audio filenames abbreviate to SM. The cover spells his name Ziyadullo Shakhidi, a third romanisation.
CD cover: Ziyodullo Shahidi — Rethinking Maqam and Symphony
/images/CD.jpg
The only image of this sleeve recovered. Cover text reads over a waterfall photograph. This is the disc the audio filenames abbreviate to RMAS.
Courtyard with a carved wooden daybed under fruit treesinferred
/pic4.jpg
A 2002 colour snapshot on the announcements page, where volunteers were invited to Dushanbe. Uncaptioned; the caption here describes only what is in the frame.
Farangis Nurulla-Khojainferred
/images/F.jpg
Uncaptioned. Identified from the filename and its place in the site's biography section.
Interior hung with a suzani, with tanbur, dutar and frame drum on a benchinferred
/picture1B.jpg
A colour snapshot from the 2001-02 site. No recovered page references or captions it; the room is very probably the Shahidi museum, but no source says so, so the caption describes only what is visible.
Manuscript score overlaid with a suzani embroidery patterninferred
/shahidiscoremerge.jpg
A montage made for the 2001-02 site, not a photograph of an object. The score beneath the embroidery has not been identified.
Manuscript score overlaid with a suzani embroidery pattern (small)inferred
/images/18.jpg
The same montage as shahidiscoremerge.jpg, cropped square for the 2004 site.
Moscow Conservatory
/moscowconservatory2.jpg
A colour snapshot of the Conservatory building and the Tchaikovsky monument in winter, taken around the time the site was built. It illustrates his 1946-57 studies; it does not date from them.
Moscow Conservatoryinferred
/images/mosconserv.jpg
The same view as moscowconservatory2.jpg at a smaller size, uncaptioned and unreferenced by any recovered page.
Munira Shahidiinferred
/images/MS.jpg
Uncaptioned on every recovered page. The identification rests on the filename initials and on the image sitting alongside her biography in the site's structure.
Outline map of Tajikistan and its neighboursinferred
/uzbekistan.jpg
Filed on the Foundation's server as uzbekistan.jpg, but the map is of Tajikistan — Dushanbe, Khujand, Kulob, Khorugh, the Pamirs and the Fergana valley are labelled, with Uzbekistan named only as a neighbour. The filename is wrong and is left alone; the caption describes the image.
Painting: a tree rooted in a hand above a mountain landscape, with musicians seated in its branchesinferred
/images/main.jpg
The 2004 site's main illustration. The painter is not named anywhere on the recovered site.
Suzani panel with a dutar and a frame drum below itinferred
/pic2.jpg
A closer view of the same wall as picture1B.jpg. Uncaptioned and unreferenced; a 2000s snapshot, not an archival photograph.
Tolib Shahidi
/tolibconcert.jpg
A concert photograph; the hall, the date and the performers are not named on the page.
Tolib Shahidi (b. 1946)
/tolib.jpg
Ziodullo Shahidi (1914-1985)
/ziodullo.gif
Also shown: Ziyodullo Shahidi
The 2001 site's spelling of his name, kept as published.
Ziyodullo Shahidiinferred
/ziodullo2.gif
The same sitting as images/ziodullo.gif, rendered smaller and in a cooler tone. Uncaptioned.
Ziyodullo Shahidi in later lifeinferred
/images/ZS.jpg
Served as site furniture with no caption on any recovered page. The identification is ours, made from the portrait itself, which is the same sitting as images/ziodullo.gif.
The same sitting, cropped to the head and the instrument
/images/ZS2.jpg
The same sitting as the plate above, and the same open question. We would rather leave the name to someone who knows it.
A smaller, tighter crop of the sepia tanbur portrait. Not byte-identical to photos/03b.jpg, so it is a separate file rather than a duplicate, and it carries no caption of its own.