Inherited Empire in East European Architectural Conservation Appropriating Ottoman, Habsburg and Russian/Soviet Past

Introduction: Conserving Local, National and Imperial Monuments in Eastern Europe and Beyond

Cosmin Minea and Kristina Jõekalda

1. Hagia Sophia as “Cosmopolitan Heritage” in the Nineteenth Century

Belgin Turan Özkaya

2. Preservation of Architectural Monuments in Romania in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: Continuities and Challenges

Cosmin Minea

3. Public Heritage and the Protection of Historic Monuments in Romania’s Changing Political Context, 1919–1948

Laura Demeter

4. The Italian Approach in the Dalmatian Context: Vicko Andrić and the Restoration Projects for Split

Jiayao Jiang

5. The Episcopium Question: Imperialism and Irredentism in the Custodianship of Diocletian’s Palace, 1850–1924

Jonathan Blower

6. Monument Preservation and Ruin Romanticism in Late Habsburg Lviv: The Case of the Gunpowder Tower

Olha Zarechnyuk

7. Paweł Popiel as the Conservator of Galicia: Nationalism within a Multinational Empire

Magdalena Kunińska

8. Reconstructions, Deconstructions, (Over)Interpretations: The Case of the Royal Castle at the Wawel in Kraków, 1908–1945

Tomasz Torbus

9. The Lost Art of Neo-Classicism in Oradea: Reshaping Early Nineteenth-Century Hungarian Cityscapes Before and After the First World War

Deodáth Zuh

10. “Prologue to the Modern Era:” The Interwar Restoration and Post-war International Promotion of the Royal Palace of Esztergom

Helka Dzsacsovszki

11. Russian Imperialism and the Restoration of the Manglisi Cathedral in Georgia, 1851–1862

Natia Natsvlishvili and David Khoshtaria

12. Monument Protection on the Gulag Archipelago: The Fate of the Solovetsky Architectural Monuments, 1917–1945

Katharina Schwinde

13. 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

Biography

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.