Czesław Miłosz was born in the vicinity of Kėdainiai, a multi-cultural region at the start of the 20th century, which was populated by Lithuanians, Jews, Poles and Russians along with the faithful of a number of different religions. Kėdainiai, nonetheless, had been renowned as the primary centre of Protestantism in Lithuania since the 16th century. The aim of this article is to depict the changes in the nation and religion, taking place in Kėdainiai and its vicinity during the latter half of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century. This paper is based on contemporary theories of collective identity […].