The Dostoyevsky Library

In which a most curious gentleman finds himself lodged within the cavernous belly of a monstrous crocodile, reflecting with feverish pompousness on his newfound fame and the grand designs he intends t...

8 Aug 29min

In which a most extraordinary spectacle of a live crocodile draws the curious gaze of Petersburg’s society, inspiring peculiar debates on love, social standing, and human folly, while domestic life an...

8 Aug 21min

In which a refined gentleman and his lady companion visit a curious exhibition of a supposedly dormant crocodile, only to witness the former being startlingly and quite inconceivably swallowed whole b...

7 Aug 25min

In which the narrator visits the venerable Timofey Semyonitch to seek counsel on a most peculiar and unprecedented predicament involving the hapless Ivan Matveitch, whose unusual circumstance stirs a ...

7 Aug 22min

In which a poor and lonely little boy wanders the bustling, icy streets of a great town on Christmas Eve, drawn by the glimmers of warmth and joy that shine from the windows of merrily decorated homes...

6 Aug 12min

In which a sombre prisoner, amidst the harsh and chaotic life behind iron bars during an uneasy holiday, is transported by a vivid childhood memory of a fearful encounter in the countryside with a kin...

6 Aug 14min

In which a jealous husband named Ivan Andreyitch, driven by suspicion and fear, bursts unexpectedly into a strange apartment only to find himself in a most compromising and absurd predicament beneath ...

5 Aug 51min

In which a gentleman cloaked in raccoon furs, harbouring a troubled heart and shaken confidence, beseeches a young man for aid in tracking a certain lady of elusive repute within the labyrinthine stre...

5 Aug 53min