abstract:"The Three Hermits" (Russian: Три Старца) is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy) written in 1885 and first published in 1886 in the weekly periodical Niva (нива).Struve, Gleb (editor).
Threehermits inhabited acave and rarely spoke.oneday a horse wandered into theirabode. "Thatwas a prettybrownhorse. " the firsthermit said more than a year later.