A Tashkent jadid poet whose collection Ravnaq ul-Islom (1916) called for schooling, unity and progress. He was executed in 1937.
A merchant's clerk who wrote
To'lagan Xo'jamyorov, who wrote as Tavallo, was born in Tashkent in 1883. He studied at the Beklarbegi madrasa and at a Russian-native school, and in 1900 went to work as a merchant's clerk in Przhevalsk, today's Karakol. From 1909 he managed a business in Tashkent, and from 1905 onwards he was a regular contributor of verse and articles to the newspapers.
Ravnaq ul-Islom
In 1914 he was among the twelve founders of the Nashriyot publishing company, and from 1915 he was active in the Turon society, the centre of Tashkent's new theatre. In 1916 he published Ravnaq ul-Islom — "The Flourishing of Islam" — seventy poems calling for schools, unity and progress. Banned for decades, the book was republished in 1993.
1937
After the revolution he served in 1918–1919 on the executive committee of Tashkent's Old and New City. On 14 August 1937 he was arrested on charges of "nationalist propaganda", and on 10 November 1937 an NKVD tribunal had him shot. He was rehabilitated in 1968.
Key achievements
- Published Ravnaq ul-Islom (1916), a collection of seventy poems on education and progress
- Co-founded the Nashriyot publishing company in Tashkent in 1914
- Took part in the Turon society, which staged some of the first Uzbek theatre in Tashkent