A Russian modernist poet, Maximilian Voloshin (1877-1932), gained wide acclaim in Russia after his release from Soviet censorship. Voloshin's religious and anti-totalitarian poems about Russia's and Crimea's history brought him an extraordinary popularity during the two crises of Russian identity that accompanied the creation and dissolution of the USSR from 1917 through the 1920s and from 1991 through 2014. Analyzing these poems and readers' responses to them in their historical context, Landa positions Voloshin's myth of Russia as a model for national reconciliation. The book ends with the annexation of Crimea and its aftermath when Voloshin's peacemaking appeal became even more relevant for the government and the opposition: the Russians, Ukrainians, and Tatars.