Sasuntsi Davit Statue
Bronze horseman reared mid-charge on a basalt pedestal, recast in copper after its sculptor's arrest destroyed the original.
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This guide to the Sasuntsi Davit Statue in Yerevan follows sculptor Yervand Kochar, who cast the original plaster horseman for the epic's 1939 anniversary, then vanished into a Soviet prison two years later on charges of anti-Soviet agitation. It traces the statue's abrupt disappearance alongside him, and the years that followed with no horseman at the station approach. Former schoolmates, including a rising Soviet official, helped secure his release after two years behind bars.
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