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.