TRADITIONAL AXIOLOGY OF THE CULTURE OF THE PEOPLES OF THE FAR EAST (USING THE EXAMPLE OF THE WORK OF EMIGRANT WRITER N.A. BAYKOV)

Abstract

The article continues the topic of studying the dynamics of ethnicity, cultural and historical traditions and spiritual and value guidelines of the population of the Russian Far East and the countries of the Asia-Pacific region in the late XIX – first half of the XX century. The material for the analysis of the spiritual and value potential of the literature of the Russian Far Eastern Abroad in the context of interethnic relations and intercultural interactions was the works of the emigrant writer N.A. Baykov (1872–1958). He lived and professionally developed in Northeast China (Manchuria). The writer’s texts study oriental images, multi-component and diverse. This is due to the fact that the various connections of these images are thematically, plot and motivatively based on Far Eastern (Asian and foreign) mythologies and cultures. For the first time, this oriental concept is realized by considering in the author’s picture of the world examples of likening zoomorphic images to humans. A literary attempt was made to comprehend the approach of the Russian prose writer to the artistic representation of animal images from the point of view of the motive of animalism, zoolatry and humanization.