Tavallo: Gazeta.uz quiz marking the 138th anniversary of the poet's birth

A day of remembrance and a quiz on his works

November 10, 2026 Gazeta.uz reminded readers of Tulagan Khojiyorov (Tavallo) and published a quiz based on his poems and biography. The date is no coincidence: it was on November 10, 1937, that the poet's death sentence, handed down on October 19 of that same year, was carried out.

Biography: from madrasa to Mushtum

Tulagan Khojiyorov was born in 1883 in the Obi Nazir neighborhood of the Kokchin district of Tashkent. He received his primary education at an old-style school, then studied at the Beklarbegi madrasa and a Russian-native school. From 1905, his poems and articles were published in Turkestan Vestnik, Sadoi Fergana, Taraqqiy and other publications; in the 1910s he was an active contributor to the press under the pen name Tavallo. In 1914, together with the enlighteners Munavvarqori and Avloni, he founded the publishing partnership Nashriyot; in 1915 he worked in the Turon society, and in 1916 his collection Ravnaq ul-islom, comprising 70 poems, was published. In 1918–1919 he served on the executive committees of Tashkent's Old and New City, and in the 1920s he contributed to the magazine Mushtum, where he published satirical poems under the signature Magzava.

Arrest and sentence

On August 14, 1937, Khojiyorov was arrested on charges of membership in the Turon, Milliy Ittihod and Milliy Istiqlol organizations and of promoting nationalist ideas in his poems. Two months later, on October 19, he was sentenced to death; the sentence was carried out on November 10, 1937. These dates are cited in Gazeta.uz's article; the publication offers the quiz as a way for readers to test their familiarity with the poet's poems on the 89th anniversary of his execution.