Master and Man (short story)

"Master and Man" (Russian: Хозяин и работник) is an 1895 short story by Leo Tolstoy.

The two men find themselves in the middle of a blizzard, but the master, in his avarice, wishes to press on.

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.

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.