A collection of articles edited by Elena Borisovna Dolinskaya, published on the 125th anniversary of the birth of N. Ya. Myaskovsky and on the 140th anniversary of the Moscow Conservatory, acquaints readers with little-studied facts of the master's creative biography, with his aesthetics, means of musical expressiveness, and with a modern look at the fate of the composer, dotted with "steep routes" of Soviet art.