A wideranging study of empire religious prophecy and nationalism in literature Russias Rome Imperial Visions Messianic Dreams 18901940 provides the first examination of Russias selfidentification with Rome during a period that encompassed the revolutions of 1905 and 1917 and the rise of the Soviet state. Analyzing Romerelated texts by Dmitrii Merezhkovskii Valerii Briusov Aleksandr Blok Viacheslav Ivanov Mikhail Kuzmin and Mikhail Bulgakov Judith Kalb argues that the myth of Russia as the Third Rome was resurrected to create an enduring Romebased discourse of Russian national identity. Russias Rome fills a gap in both Russian studies and scholarship on the classical tradition providing valuable material for scholars of Russian culture and history classicists and readers interested in the classical heritage.