Elena Alexandrovna Bakhtina: an attempt to verify biographical information (on the problem of creating a scientific biography of M. M. Bakhtin)

Introduction. The creation of a scientific biography of M. M. Bakhtin (1895-1975) is an urgent task of the modern humanities. There are many “blank spots” and inaccuracies in the biographies of the thinker. One of the most noticeable gaps is the extremely scarce and contradictory biographical information about his wife, E. A. Bakhtina (nee Okolovich). The article sets the task of verifying the biographical information about her given by other researchers by comparing already known sources and introducing new ones into scientific circulation.