The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems translated by Paul Schmidt journalism as well as an extract

as well as an extract from John Wilson’s The City of the Plague

Soviet workers rapidly evacuated factories

topped off with a digestif of winter punch or blackcurrant vodka

” In The Good Life Elsewhere

the debt had to be paid immediately

The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems translated by Paul Schmidt journalism as well as an extractIn the years before the 1917 Russian Revolution, the Stray Dog cabaret in St Petersburg was the haunt of poets, artists, and musicians, a place to meet, drink, read, brawl, celebrate, and stage performances of all kinds. It has since become a symbol of the extraordinary literary ferment of that time. It was then that Alexander Blok composed his apocalyptic sequence Twelve; that the futurists Velimir Khlebnikov and Vladimir Mayakovsky exploded language