The monumental mural painting by the well-known Armenian painter Grigor Khanjyan (1926-2000), located in the Khanjyan Gallery at the Cafesjian Center for the Arts, the Cascade, Yerevan. It was commissioned for the original Soviet monument but left unfinished at the time of Khanjyan’s death.
The three primary scenes of the mural illustrate important events in Armenia’s history: The Creation of the Armenian Alphabet (1992-1994); The Battle of Vardanank in AD 451 (1995-1998); and The Rebirth of Armenia (1998-2000).