Andrei Tolstyk: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Andrei Tolstyk is the name of the seven year-old Siberian "wild boy" discovered in 2004 in Russia. Abandoned by his parents at only three years of age, he was taken in, so to speak, and raised by the family guard dog. Social workers discovered Tolstyk when he did not enroll at the local school in Siberia's Altai region. When found, he was incapable of speech and had adopted a number of canine traits and behaviors, such as walking on all fours, biting people, and sniffing his food before eating. The social workers placed Tolstyk in a local orphanage.

Tolstyk is not the first boy in Russia to have been raised by dogs. In 1998, police found Ivan Myshukov, a six year-old who had become the leader of a pack of dogs, near Moscow.