«“If people lived in the hotel, there would be a restaurant, you would earn money,” so many said to the miniaturist Davlat Toshev when they learned that the dilapidated building of the old caravanserai in the center of Bukhara, which he had so hard to rent, he wants to turn it into an art workshop, into a school where he wanted to teach gifted children for free. “And I asked them,” says Davlat, “what will you pass on to your children and grandchildren? Does your conscience bother you?” Even his wife did not understand Davlat. This restoration almost destroyed the harmony in the family.

Each work of Davlat Toshev is not just skilful, jewelry-made drawings with a thin tool on smooth silk paper. This is a story about the world, its knowledge, about higher powers: “Whoever you are, whatever your religion, you must believe in God.

Each work of Davlat Toshev is not just skilful, jewelry-made drawings with a thin tool on smooth silk paper.