Three Fat Men (Три Толстяка, "Tri Tolstiaka") is a Russian and Soviet children's story written by Yury Olesha in 1924, published 1928.
[1] The book tells the story of a revolution led by the poor against the rich (Fat Men) in a fictional country.
Early critical reaction was varied, with V. Boichevsky describing it as a "sugarcoated" presentation of revolution in an article "How Stories For Children Should Not Be".
[citation needed] Konstantin Stanislavki and the Moscow Art Theatre premiered a dramatic version of the story in May 1930.
The Fat Men summon a famous scholar, Doctor Caspar Arnery, and order him to fix the doll before the next day.
He was once a man named Toub, a great scholar on par with Arnery, who made the doll for Tutti at the Three Fat Men's order, to replace Suok, who was his twin sister.
Then the Fat Men demanded he replace Tutti's heart with an iron one (hoping it will make him grow up as cruel as them), and, once he refused, caged him.
The eight years spent in the menagerie cage turned Toub into a creature resembling a wolf - fanged and completely covered in fur.