The material field of the skomorokh during a historical turning point (based on V. I. Belov’s trilogy “The Sixth Hour”)

The article is devoted to the analysis of the object world in V. I. Belov’s trilogy “The Sixth Hour”, which was created over a period of almost thirty years. The purpose of the study is to identify the features of the material world of the jovial hero, who is an heir to the traditions of the ancient Russian skomorokhs, in V. I. Belov’s trilogy “The Sixth Hour”. The article focuses on the ontological essence of various objects that are included in three circles of things, and traces the “irradiation” of the human principle, which includes items of clothing (hat, cap, and fur coat), musical instruments (balalaika), mechanisms (gramophone), printed materials (newspaper), and means of transportation (ski). The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that it establishes a specific feature of the writer’s poetics, which is the creation of the characters’ object fields as a means of characterology. As a result of the study, the items that form Kindi Sudeykin’s material field, a character who belongs to one of the main types of characters in V. I. Belov’s works, have been identified, and the connections between the items have been marked, the semantic halo of this field has been reconstructed, and the law of life in the peasant Universe has been deduced, which manifests itself through the functioning of these things.