Panorama of the 1st defense of Sevastopol
Panorama of the First Defense of Sevastopol
Crimea, Sevastopol
The historic boulevard is popular primarily due to the artistic panorama created by 1905 in Munich by Franz Roubaud and students of the Bavarian Academy of Arts. The huge canvas depicts the reflection by the Russians of the general assault of the Anglo-French troops on June 6, 1856. The size of the painting canvas is 14 by 115 m, the area of the subject plan is 900 sq.m. The building also houses a diorama of underground mine warfare and an exhibition of weapons from the Crimean War. The monument in honor of the defenders of the Fourth Bastion (located behind the panorama building), perhaps the best of all the monuments on the bastions. Not far from it, the combat positions of the battery with a parapet and guns are reproduced. The guns are real, from among those that were removed from the sunken ships and installed on the bastions of Sevastopol. The 26-year-old lieutenant Leo Tolstoy fought on the fourth bastion, whose first literary fame was brought by his “Sevastpool stories”.