Stories in a wood accompanied by Russian lullaby  - The crocodile part 2
Channel: Hakuna Matada
Date: 2020-10-21

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist and short-story writer, whose psychological penetration into the darkest recesses of the human heart, together with his unsurpassed moments of illumination, had an immense influence on 20th-century fiction.

He specialized in the analysis of pathological states of mind that lead to insanity, murder, and suicide and in the exploration of the emotions of humiliation, self-destruction, tyrannical domination, and murderous rage. These major works are also renowned as great “novels of ideas” that treat timeless and timely issues in philosophy and politics. Psychology and philosophy are closely linked in Dostoyevsky’s portrayals of intellectuals, who “feel ideas” in the depths of their souls. 

It is about Ivan Matveich who is swallowed by a crocodile live at a public exhibition in St. Petersburg..He teases his way to get to this trap. He is accompanied by his wife Elena Ivanovna and a friend Semyon Semyonitch to the exhibition.

 The crocodile is being is touring all over the country run by a German couple. Ivan's wife make an appeal to the couple to cut the crocodile to rescue her husband while the couple demand a ransom in return. Elena is unable to make all that money while Ivan gets accustomed to his new environment comfortably , he even starts enjoying the attention he gathers by his new found place of life. On the contrary Elena begins to appreciate her freedom and life without Ivan...

Thumbnail Photo from Pixabay

Russian Lullaby - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUP9U_O1IuA&t=66s
Forest footage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_W50YHx33I

Moonlight Sonata (by Beethoven) by Beethoven
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