As The hermit is an important character in Leo Tolstoy’s story ‘Three Questions’. He, who was famous for his wisdom lived alone in a hut in a forest. He never quitted the wood. He met only common people and not men of rank and position. Despite being feeble, he was self-sufficient. He used to do all his works like digging the ground and sowing seeds in the beds himself. He did not believe in taking advantage of other people’s goodness. Therefore, though the Tsar was willingly digging the beds for him, when he dealsed that the Tsar had been doing it for quite a lot of time, he asked him to get some rest and volunteered to handover the work to him. The hermit was civil in his manners. When the Tsar offered to help him, he accepted it and thanked the Tsar for being kind. The hermit’s sympathetic side comes to light when we see him receive the wounded man with great care. He assisted the Tsar in nursing the wounded man back to life. He was a reticent man but listened to others attentively. He did not give dry moral lessons to the Tsar but made him find the right answers to his three questions himself by analysing his own experiences.