Bathed in hand-applied color, this remarkable bird's-eye view of Reval — today's Tallinn, Estonia — sweeps across the park-lined approach to Toompea (the Upper Town), where crowds of Sunday promenaders wind along the paths below the medieval Fat Margaret tower and the distinctive round bastion walls. Russian Imperial-era flags catch the breeze above the towers, placing this squarely in the period before Estonian independence. The winding pathways, ornamental gardens, and dense canopy of linden trees give the scene an almost theatrical quality, a city poised between its Hanseatic past and an uncertain twentieth century.