The image of the people in R. Rugin’s poetry

Abstract

The article analyzes the poetry of the Khanty author R. Rugin. The relevance of the article lies in characterizing the features of the artistic picture of the world of the writer – an original representative of regional literature. The work uses cultural-historical and structural-semantic types of analysis. Based on the material of more than 30 poems, including the image of the Khanty as a small indigenous people of the North, the article reveals its main elements: features of national character and mentality, stages in the history of the formation and development of the people, their mythological consciousness, the focus on everyday details of the people’s way of life. The key values that form the original worldview of the Khanty include their connection with the clan, their careful attitude to natural resources, preservation of language, traditions, customs, beliefs and other components of the material and spiritual culture of the people. The loss of modern man’s roots, connections with his ancestors and traditions, laid down by them, is seen by the author as a source of threat not only to the preservation of the cultural identity of the indigenous peoples of the North, but also to their physical survival. The article concludes that in R. Rugin’s poetry, the image of the people is one of the means of representing an ethnic group in world culture, as well as the formation of national identity.