On October 6, Emil Stepanyan, the son of poet Anjela Stepanyan, telephoned the staff at the Derenik Demirchyan House-Museum in Yerevan. He wanted to know if they were aware of the fact that the bust of the famous Armenian novelist and playwright had disappeared from the Central (Tokhmakh) Cemetery’s Municipal Pantheon.
On the night of July 26 the bronze bust of Mkhitar Heratsi, the father of Armenian medicine, disappeared from in front of the entrance to the Vladimir Avagyan Medical Center at 15 Moskovyan Street, Yerevan The bronze bust of Amirdovlat Amasiatsi, another medieval Armenian physician, was also displayed nearby. The thieves, it seems, didn’t have time to steal this one as well.