Collection of articles by the famous musicologist Inna Alekseevna Barsova is dedicated to Russian musical art of the 20th century. Russian composer emigration, the Soviet avant-garde of the 1920s, late romanticism and anti-romanticism, little-researched aspects of the work of Alexander Mosolov, Gavriil Popov, Dmitry Shostakovich, Alfred Schnittke, Alexander Kneifel - this is not a complete range of topics raised by the author.