Бродячая собака

The book tells about the history of the St. Petersburg house on the corner of Mikhailovskaya Square (art Square) and Italian Street, known in the literature about the city as “Jacob’s House”, “Yakovlev’s House” or “Dashkov’s House”.

Separate chapters are dedicated to the fate and history of the musical and literary salon of Mikhail and Matveev of Vielhorsky; The family of Dashkov and a wonderful assembly of materials on the history of Russia and St. Petersburg P.Ya. Dashkova.

, the majority is devoted to the story of the created and led by B.K. Pronin in the basement of this house with a night-cabbage club “Wandering Dog”, with which the life fate and work of many figures of Russian and European culture are associated: poets, artists, actors, writers-A. Akhmatova and O. Mandelstam, N. Gumilyov and M. Kuzmin, O. Glebova-Sudyukina and Armed Forces. Knyazeva, G. Ivanova and N. Kulbin, V. Khlebnikov and V. Mayakovsky.

The book includes an extensive bibliography; When writing it, both published and unrelated materials were used.

The final chapters tell about the revival of the "Wandering Dog" these days and about today's life of the famous basement.