Inherited Empire in East European Architectural Conservation

Cosmin Minea, PhD, is a Czech Science Foundation researcher at the Art History Department of Masaryk University, Brno. His project analyses the promotion and restoration of architectural monuments in Romania, Serbia and Bulgaria (1860–1930). He is also co-chair of the Environmental Humanities working group at New Europe College, Bucharest.Kristina Jõekalda is Associate Professor at the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn. Formerly Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University, and Visiting Fellow at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Research interests: historiography, heritage construction, uncomfortable monuments, power relations behind art history.

• Introduction: Conserving Local, National and Imperial Monuments in Eastern Europe and Beyond - Cosmin Minea and Kristina Jõekalda Hagia Sophia as “Cosmopolitan Heritage” in the Nineteenth Century - Belgin Turan Özkaya Preservation of Architectural Monuments in Romania in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: Continuities and Challenges - Cosmin Minea Public Heritage and the Protection of Historic Monuments in Romania’s Changing Political Context, 1919–1948 - Laura Demeter The Italian Approach in the Dalmatian Context: Vicko Andric and the Restoration Projects for Split - Jiayao Jiang The Episcopium Question: Imperialism and Irredentism in the Custodianship of Diocletian’s Palace, 1850–1924 - Jonathan Blower Monument Preservation and Ruin Romanticism in Late Habsburg Lviv: The Case of the Gunpowder Tower - Olha Zarechnyuk Pawel Popiel as the Conservator of Galicia: Nationalism within a Multinational Empire - Magdalena Kuninska Reconstructions, Deconstructions, (Over)Interpretations: The Case of the Royal Castle at the Wawel in Kraków, 1908–1945 - Tomasz Torbus The Lost Art of Neo-Classicism in Oradea: Reshaping Early Nineteenth-Century Hungarian Cityscapes Before and After the First World War - Deodáth Zuh “Prologue to the Modern Era:” The Interwar Restoration and Post-war International Promotion of the Royal Palace of Esztergom - Helka Dzsacsovszki Russian Imperialism and the Restoration of the Manglisi Cathedral in Georgia, 1851–1862 - Natia Natsvlishvili and David Khoshtaria Monument Protection on the Gulag Archipelago: The Fate of the Solovetsky Architectural Monuments, 1917–1945 - Katharina Schwinde Soviet Reassessment of Nineteenth-Century Romanticism: A History of the Reception of Architectural Conservation in Estonia - Kristina Jõekalda Concluding Thoughts: Modernity and Ambivalence in the Construction of Heritage - Matthew Rampley Contributors Index