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This is a statue of Constantine XI Palaeologos, the last Emperor of Constantinople who died in the fighting when the city fell to the Ottomans in May 1453.
This statue stands in Mistra (Mystras) in the Peloponnese, and a copy was made later and erected in Mitropoleos Square in Athens. But it was in Mistra that Constantine was crowned as Emperor, in the cathedral of St. Demetrios, in January 1449. He then embarked on a Catalan ship and arrived in Constantinople in March of that year.
The statue is modern, made in the late 1970s so it is not an actual likeness and we have no idea what he really looked like, but many legends have grown up around him.
I am writing a trilogy of historical novels which tell the story of Constantine and his brothers and the troubled last years of the Byzantine Empire.