The motive of help and the images of assistants in the texts of V.K. Arsenev
The paper discovers, describes and analyses the episodes ofV.K. Arsenyev’s books "Along the Ussury Land" and "Dersu Uzala", which present the motif of help, to study the images of helpers and related imagery. The first chapters of "Along the Ussury Land" (I-XVIII) are discussed in detail, the episodes found in this fragment are compared with other parts of "Along the Ussury Land" and "Dersu Uzala". We are interested in the circumstances of help, types of help, types of gratitude, the images of helpers and the characters accepting help.