Stray Dog Café

The Stray Dog was a café and cabaret located at Mikhailovskaya Ploshchad, 5, Square of the Arts up to Summer Gardens, St. Petersburg, Russia. Theatrical performances, lectures, poetry and musical evenings were held here.

The Stray Dog Café was a meeting place for writers and poets between 1911 and 1915. The Acmeist poets gathered there to discuss theories of literature, give poetry readings, and perform theatre. They considered themselves "'stray dogs' shunted aside by proper aristocratic society", which led to the name. The cafe was in disrepair for many years and reopened in 2001.