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topped off with a digestif of winter punch or blackcurrant vodka
as well as an extract from John Wilson’s The City of the Plague
The Ransomed Dissident opens a window into the life of a remarkable man: a dissident of uncompromising moral integrity and with an outstanding gift for friendship
critic and television presenter Jonathan Meades
Soviet workers rapidly evacuated factories
The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems translated by Paul Schmidt journalism topped off with a digestifIn 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
