Kitob ta'rifi

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The Uzbek heroic folk-epic "Alpomish", which has a many-centuried history, and goes back with its roots into the depths of past ages, has come down to us in the form of a living tradition. "Alpomish" is an epos which praises manliness, the unity of folk, love and faithfulness, and the firmness of the family. Those ideas found a nota¬ble artistic presentation in the fullest art-version of this doston, written down by Fozil Yuldosh-oghli (1872-1955) which occupied him for the whole of his life. In that variant it tells of the wondrous birth of the hero, about his knightly youth, about his first achievements, about his contests with Kalmak knights, and his struggle to win Barchin as his bride; about his seven years in captiv¬ity, and his release, with the help of his knightly steed, also about how Alpomish gained victory over the usurper Ulton, and the freeing of his wife Barchin, and finally how he established his reign over the united tribes of Qunghirats, who had been temporarily thrown into disunity. “Alpomish” is a production portraying the complicated and difficult heroic period in the history of the folk, seeking the road to consolidation of divided tribes and peoples.