Seven Beauties (A. Navoi)
Captioned in Russian (mostly) and English, the English portion states: ‘Seven Beauties’ excerpt from the poem by A. Navoi”. This unmailed postcard (someone wrote “Azerbaijan” on the top reverse, but we doubt that) was published in Tashkent in 1972. However in our search to learn about A. Navoi and those Seven Beauties, we wound up with this from Wikipedia: “‘Ali-Shir Nava’i (9 February 1441 – 3 January 1501), also known as Nizām-al-Din ʿAli-Shir Herawī (Chagatai: نظام الدین علی شیر نوایی, Persian: نظامالدین علیشیر نوایی) was a Timurid poet, writer, statesman, linguist, Hanafi Maturidi mystic and painter who was the greatest representative of Chagatai literature.” This did not help us at all, but we went on to learn he was born in Afghanistan, so that’s where we put the card. We’ve no idea of the true setting of the photograph. Maybe Tashkent. Grade: 2