This article makes an attempt to comprehend new facts related to the formation and development of that line of Russian autobiographical prose that deals with the creation of the image of a child hero. It is concluded that the stable features of artistic autobiographies include chronological sequence, phasing and author’s reflection. The decisive significance that "Family Chronicle" by S.T. had for the formation of the principles of depicting childhood in Russian autobiographical prose is emphasized. Aksakov and the trilogy of L.N. Tolstoy, including the stories "Childhood", "Adolescence" and "Youth". Along with this, the concepts of childhood in the autobiographical stories of A.M. were analyzed and compared. Gorky "Childhood" (1913) and 69 F.G. Sukhov "Stormbreaker". "Stormbreaker" is an unfinished, posthumously published (2017) work by F.G. Sukhov (1922-1992), Nizhny Novgorod poet and prose writer, participant in the Great Patriotic War. This story, which in many ways continues the artistic quest of writers considered representatives of rural prose (V. Belov, V. Shukshin, V. Rasputin), tells about the life of a rural boy who looks at the world through the prism of the Old Believer customs and social norms surrounding him. The study revealed certain similarities in the autobiographical stories of A.M. Gorky and F.G. Sukhov, related to the narrative structure (fragmentation of memories, philosophical reflections of the author "from the outside"), composition, some key artistic images, such as mother, grandmother, grandfather - it is these characters in these works that most strongly influenced the formation of the personality of the main characters and formation of their inner world. The thesis has also been put forward that the concept of childhood in A.M. Gorky is focused on movement towards the outside world, and the concept of childhood in F.G. Sukhov - to preserve inner, personal peace
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