The image of childhood in the national world model of the Yukaghir poet Nikolai Kurilov

The article examines the image of childhood in the national world model in poems written in Russian in 1985-2020 by the Yukaghir poet Nikolai Kurilov (b. 1949). It includes a number of significant components, including the way of life of the family where children grow up, models of adequate national behavior of children and adults who make up the child’s immediate circle. The identified complex reflects the current stage in the evolution of the Yukaghirs’ ideas about childhood. Children’s fiction, along with folklore, has become a transmitter of the national model of the world. Childhood is represented by miniature sketches of events that are currently taking place or have just happened (a similar form of depiction was borrowed from Russian children’s literature), however, the peculiarities in the development of Yukaghir literature for children are associated with filling the form adopted from Russian literature with elements of their own national representation of the world. N. Kurilov’s interpretation of the image of childhood, based on his personal experience, falls within the framework of the national worldview. Ideas about childhood are formed by Yukaghirs’ traditional way of life and modern life, which are not opposed to each other, but are integrated in the national image of the world.