Prohászka László: Equestrian Statues - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1997)

András Hadik’s statue in Buda Castle

The inscription on the other side was “rectified” after 1945. Its direct reference to World War I was erased, so the following text can be read today:

This monument was raised by the members of the 3rd, Later Hadik, regiment to honour the memory of their onetime commander, and to commemorate those anonymous Hadik hussars who had earned respect for the name of the Hungarian hussar by fighting valiantly in the wars of two centuries.

On the fagade of the base, below the inscription Hadik András tábornagy (General A. H.), is the carved limestone escutcheon of the 3rd Hussar Regiment, while the back of the pediment is decorated with the Hadik family’s coat-of37