Panoptic Gaze and Panoramic View in and of Late 18th and Early 19th Century Imperial Russia
Journal: SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología
Year: 2021

In the Russian Empire, the panoptic gaze and the panoramic view developed and were closely intertwined from the late eighteenth century onward. Both scopic regimes required a specific organisation of space and visibility in order to establish a dual relation between the observers and the observed, as was the case in the cinematograph that emerged later. This article aims to reconstruct their interconnection, starting from the “inspection trip” that Empress Catherine II made to Crimea in 1787 and