The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems translated by Paul Schmidt journalism critic and television presenter Jonathan

critic and television presenter Jonathan Meades

But these 'twin souls' never stopped loving each other

an epic array of short fictional tales reflecting the fifteen years that Varlam Shalamov spent in the Soviet Gulag

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The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems translated by Paul Schmidt journalism critic and television presenter JonathanIn 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