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.

• Introduction: Conserving Local, National and Imperial Monuments in Eastern Europe and Beyond  1. Hagia Sophia as “Cosmopolitan Heritage” in the Nineteenth Century  2. Preservation of Architectural Monuments in Romania in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: Continuities and Challenges  3. Public Heritage and the Protection of Historic Monuments in Romania’s Changing Political Context, 1919–1948  4. The Italian Approach in the Dalmatian Context: Vicko Andrić and the Restoration Projects for Split  5. The Episcopium Question: Imperialism and Irredentism in the Custodianship of Diocletian’s Palace, 1850–1924  6. Monument Preservation and Ruin Romanticism in Late Habsburg Lviv: The Case of the Gunpowder Tower  7. Paweł Popiel as the Conservator of Galicia: Nationalism within a Multinational Empire  8. Reconstructions, Deconstructions, (Over)Interpretations: The Case of the Royal Castle at the Wawel in Kraków, 1908–1945  9. The Lost Art of Neo-Classicism in Oradea: Reshaping Early Nineteenth-Century Hungarian Cityscapes Before and After the First World War  10. “Prologue to the Modern Era:” The Interwar Restoration and Post-war International Promotion of the Royal Palace of Esztergom  11. Russian Imperialism and the Restoration of the Manglisi Cathedral in Georgia, 1851–1862  12. Monument Protection on the Gulag Archipelago: The Fate of the Solovetsky Architectural Monuments, 1917–1945  13. Soviet Reassessment of Nineteenth-Century Romanticism: A History of the Reception of Architectural Conservation in Estonia  Concluding Thoughts: Modernity and Ambivalence in the Construction of Heritage