The Strange Fate of the Emir of Bukhara: 1920 and Exile

In 1920, the Red Army invaded the Emirate of Bukhara, ending centuries of independent rule. But what happened to the last emir, Alim Khan? Did he flee? Fight? Survive? This episode follows his dramatic last stand, his escape to Afghanistan, and the bizarre afterlife of a deposed monarch who tried, and failed, to reclaim his throne from exile. Along the way, we explore the fall of the old order, the rise of the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic, and the fate of the emir's harem, his treasury, and his loyalist fighters known as the 'Basmachi'. It's a story of revolution, resistance, and the strange persistence of a vanished kingdom in the mountains of Central Asia.

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