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[[File:Leo Tolstoy seated.jpg|thumb|Leo Tolstoy, author of Master and Man (short story)]]
''"'''Master and Man'''''" ({{lang-ru|Хозяин и работник}}) is aan 1895 [[short story]] by [[Leo Tolstoy]] (1895).
 
==Plot summary==
In this short story, a land owner named Vasili AndreevichAndreyevich Brekhunov takes along one of his [[peasants]], Nikita, for a short journey by [[sleigh]]. They are traveling to thevisit houseanother oflandowner theso ownerthat ofVasili Andreyevich can purchase a forest. He is impatient and wishes to get to the townthere more quickly 'for business' (purchasing the forest before other contenders can get there). They find themselves in the middle of a blizzard, but the master in his avarice wishes to press on. They eventually get lost off the road and they try to camp. The master's peasant soon finds himself about to die from [[hypothermia]]. After leaving his peasant to die, and returning to the same place he had fled from, the master attains a spiritual/moral revelation, and Tolstoy once again repeats one of his famous themes: that the only true happiness in life is found by living for others. The master then lies on top of the peasant to keep him warm through the cold night. Vasili is too exposed to the cold though and dies. Nikita's life is saved, but he loses some of his toes to frostbite.
 
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The two men find themselves in the middle of a [[blizzard]], but the master, in his [[avarice]], wishes to press on. Due to snow, they find themselves losing the road and getting lost. They eventually find themselves in a town and stop to rest. Vasily Andreyevich decides they must set back out.
 
The men lose the road and the horse gets tired out, so they decide to try to sleep out the night and find their way in the morning. Nikita, who is not as warmly dressed as Vasily Andreyevich, soon finds himself about to die from [[hypothermia]].
 
Vasily Andreyevich decides to leave Nikita to die and sets out on his own on the horse. He wanders through the snow in circles and eventually falls off the horse, finding himself back by Nikita and the sleigh. The master attains a spiritual/moral revelation, and Tolstoy repeats one of his famous themes: that the only true [[happiness]] in life is found by living for others.
 
The master then lies on top of the peasant to keep him warm through the cold night. In the morning, peasants dig out the sleigh, which was only half a mile from town. They find Vasily Andreyevich and the horse dead but Nikita is still alive.
 
==Film adaptation==
The short story was adapted into the 2012 British film ''[[Boxing Day (2012 film)|Boxing Day]]''.<ref name="Guardian">Peter Bradshaw, "[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/dec/20/boxing-day-review Boxing Day – Review]", ''The Guardian'' (20 December 2012).</ref>
 
==See also==
 
* [[Leo Tolstoy bibliography]]
 
==External links==
 
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* English Text
*[http://librivox.org/master-and-man-by-leo-tolstoy/ Librivox Audio Book]
**[http://www.gutenbergrevoltlib.orgcom/etext/986?id=2413 Gutenberg''Master Ebookand Man''], at RevoltLib.com
**[https://www.marxists.org/archive/tolstoy/1895/master-and-man/index.html ''Master and Man''], at [[Marxists.org]]
**[https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/leo-tolstoy-master-and-man ''Master and Man''], at TheAnarchistLibrary.org
**[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/986 Gutenberg Ebook]
* English Audio
** {{librivox book | title=Master and Man | author=Leo TOLSTOY}}
 
==References==
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[[Category:1895 short stories]]
[[Category:Short stories by Leo Tolstoy]]
[[Category:Short stories adapted into films]]
 
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