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Dodkhudoeva, Larisa
Tajik art historian Larisa Dodkhudoeva was born in 1947 in
Dushanbe. She is the daughter of Nazarsho Dodkhudoev.
Dodkhudoeva graduated from the Repin Institute of Painting,
Sculpture and Architecture of St. Petersburg in 1970. In 1978, she re-
ceived her doctorate degree in Islamic culture from the Oriental Institute
of the Academy of Sciences of Russia. In 1988, she received a doctorate
degree in history from the Institute of History, Archaeology and Eth-

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nography of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. Dodkhudoeva has

received two certificates, one from the University of Nebraska for Peace
and Reconciliation in Tajikistan, 1999, and the other from the Central
European University for Cultural Turn in the Post-Colonial Epoch,
2001).
Dodkhudoeva's career began as a researcher at the Oriental Institute
in 1970. From 1993 to 1996, she was the Head of the Department of
South Asia, the Institute of World Economy and International Relations.
From 1996 to 2000, she was the Deputy Director of the Institute of
World Economy and International Relations. At the present, she is a
Chief Researcher in the Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnog-
raphy of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan.
Dodkhudoeva's contributions include Tajik Artists, Moscow, 1983;
Nizami Poems in the Medieval Persian Miniature Painting, Moscow,
1985; Catalogue of the Artistically Decorated Manuscripts in the Acad-
emy of Sciences of Tajikistan, Dushanbe, 1986; Zoroastrian Elements in
Islamic Art and Artifacts, 1997; Art of Books in Central Asia and India
in the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries, Dushanbe, 2001; Istaravshan,
Moscow, 2002; and Tajik Art, Dushanbe, 2002.
Dodkhudoeva has been the recipient of a number of grants including
Academy of Fine Arts Scholarship, Drezden, Germany (1968), Russian
Academy of Sciences, Oriental Institute Scholarship (1972-73),
UNESCO Scholarship (1986), and the Central European University
Foundation Scholarship (2001). She is also the recipient of a Distin-
guished Researcher of the Republic of Tajikistan (1992) and of an Ap-
preciation Award from the Zoroastrian College, Bombay, India (2001).