The Siege of Sevastopol Panorama is a museum painting housed in a domed building in Sevastopol, Crimea, and part of the Defence of Sevastopol Museum. The Russian artist Franz Roubaud began the work in 1901, and the full-size version was painted in 1902–1904 with Shenhena Merten, Frosch and 20 students of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. It was unveiled on May 14, 1905.
The panorama is 377 feet (115 m) long and 46 feet (14 m) high. It shows the Allied assault on the Malakhov Battery on June 18, 1855, during the Crimean War, when 173,000 British and French troops were repulsed by 75,000 Russians.
The building was badly damaged in the German-Romanian siege of 1942, its domed cupola was shattered, and the panorama was partly burnt. A Soviet team led by Vasily Nikolaevich Yakovlev recreated the panorama on a new canvas in 1951–1954.
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