A strange nickname was given to his horse by the owner - Kholstomer (however, the name of the animal is also no less strange - the First Man). In Leo Tolstoy's novel "Strider", an old and sick gelding tells other horses the story of his painful life. He served many different people, but most of all, with enthusiasm, he remembers his master, officer Nikita Serpukhovsky, although he also crippled hi...