In today’s context of overlapping crises that render futures uncertain, our experience of time is marked by a sense of temporal foreclosure: the present feels overwhelming, and the future difficult to grasp. This talk approaches the problem of crisis and historical time through the experience of Russian Old Believers in Romania, a community that lived through successive crises throughout the 20th century, which challenged the continuity of faith and communal life. It examines how this community developed an apocalyptic temporality in which the ruptured past turned into a new beginning and the present was framed by an imminent end. This way of inhabiting history continues to provide scope for historical agency and ethical life, suggesting that the End itself can create a space for sustaining life, generating hope and imagining possible futures.