1895. Mikhail Bakhtin was born
120 years ago, on November 17, 1895, the Russian philosopher and philologist Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin, the creator of the concept of polyphonism (polyphony) in a literary work, was born. In December 1928, Bakhtin, among other Leningrad intellectuals, was arrested in connection with the activities of the religious and philosophical circle "Resurrection" led by Alexander Meyer.