“Numerous reconstructings have given the courtyard of Toompea Palace a new-type outlook. Pikk Hermann looking over the roof is the only reminder of the Middle Ages.”
– H. Gustavson, Toompea loss. Замок Тоомпеа. Toompea palace (postcard box), Eesti Raamat, Tallinn, 1984 (Photograph by G. German)