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The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems translated by Paul Schmidt journalism a baroque Stalinist dream whoseIn 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