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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 an 1895 [[short story]] by [[Leo Tolstoy]].
==Plot summary==
In this short story, a land owner named Vasili Andreyevich Brekhunov takes one of his [[peasants]], Nikita, for a short journey by [[sleigh]]. They are traveling to visit another landowner so that Vasili
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.
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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
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.
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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>
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{{Reflist}}▼
* [[Leo Tolstoy bibliography]]
==External links==
* English Text
*[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/986 Gutenberg Ebook]▼
**[http://www.revoltlib.com/?id=2413 ''Master and Man''], at RevoltLib.com
* {{librivox book | title=Master and Man | author=Leo TOLSTOY}}▼
**[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==
▲{{Reflist}}
{{Leo Tolstoy}}
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