"The Panopticon was first designed during the autumn of 1786 on the estate of Krichev in the southern Mogilev province of White Russia, partitioned from Poland in 1772. 9 Jeremy had arrived at the estate earlier that year, and occupied himself writing The Defense of Usury at a retreat in the village of Zadobrast. Struck by “the plan of a building, lately contrived by my brother, under the name of the Inspection House or Elaboratory,” Jeremy incorporated the idea into his own plans for a penitentiary in answer to a competition being held by the St. James Chronicle to design a new prison for Middlesex. Jeremy sent his plans to his father to be printed for a limited circulation in December 1786, in the form of a
series of letters, eventually published as Panopticon; or, The Inspection House in 1791.
"The estate belonged to Prince Grigorii Potemkin, the most influential of Catherine II’s favorites during the 1780s. It comprised approximately 1000 square miles, with five towns and more than a hundred hamlets. By 1784, Potemkin had built up numerous manufactories there for his own profit: including a glass factory, copperworks, tannery and leatherworks. In the central town of Krichev, a textile mill and ropewalk produced materials for shipbuilding at Kherson."
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