“Vanyusha regarded Olenin as no more than his master. Olenin regarded Vanyusha as no more than his servant. They would have been greatly surprised had anyone told them they were friends. And yet they were friends, without either of them knowing it.”
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Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer and thinker, a prominent representative of 19th-century Russian literature. His works deeply revealed social contradictions and human nature, and had a profound impact on the world. more
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