Mollanepes

Mollanepes, whose name was Nepes, was born in 1810 near Sarakhs, the last of the four sons of the molla Kadyrberdi. After the school of his village, he studied at the madrasa of Mary, then at Bukhara and at Khiva. Back among his own people, he taught children, farmed the land and worked as a jeweller. He married Bossantäç, whom he had loved since his youth, and had two sons by her. He died in 1862 and was buried in the cemetery of Hoja Abdylla, near Mary.

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• PoetryZöhre-TahyrMollanepes · 1850not translated into EnglishLiterature