Panorama, The defence of Sevastopol 1854 -1855
By Franz Alekseevich Roubaud, The canvas and life size plan of the Panorama was created over a 3 year
period in a special pavilion in Munich, where the artist lived.
The building was constructed under the supervision of military engineer F O Enberg and architect V Feldman
On the 14th of May the building was opened which was the 50th anniversary of the defence of Sevastopol,
On the 25th of June, 1942 the building was hit by a German bomb and caught fire,86 parts of the canvas
were saved by rescue workers, and were taken away by the Destroyer Tashkent
After world war 2 the question about the restoration of the painting began,it was impossible to restore the
saved fragments, so the specialists decided to make a new canvas under the direction of V Yakovlevand
after his death by P Sokolov-Skalya,
17 painters from Moscow recreated the painting over a 3 year period,
At the same time builders reconstructed the ruined building, and on the 16th of October 1954 the building
was reopened.
The Panorama tell about 1 of the 349 days of the Sevastopol defence, on the 6th of June 1855, when the
defenders repelled the assault on the fortifications of the Korabelnaya Quarter
The Panorama canvas is 14m x 115m, the area of the life size plan is about 1000 sq.m.
