The monument was established in 1932 in honor of the fallen soldiers of the Haanja Munamäe battle in 1919. The monument was banned during the Soviet era and was reopened on the 7th of August in 1988.
Having been a teacher of king Gustav II Adolf and being his councilor Johan Skyte was the man who made the king want to open a university in Tartu. Skyte can be described as a man before his time - he expressed a hope that Estonians and Latvians too wou...