Two postscripts for Bakhtin subjects

The article, firstly, clarifies the circumstances of the evacuation of M.M. Bakhtin's nephew - A.N. Perfiliev from besieged Leningrad (in March of 1942); secondly, analyzes (basing on Bakhtin's texts) his metaphorical concept “the last whole”, which has become recently relevant in a number of philological publications and reports, but has not received an unambiguous terminological interpretation.