Myaskovsky [Miskóffsky] (Miaskovsky), Nikolay Yakovlevich (4–8/20–1881, Novogeorgiyevsk [now Modlin, Poland]; 8–8–1950, M.). Nikolay was the second child of Yakov Konstantinovich Myaskovsky, an officer in the Department of Military Fortification, and his wife Vera Nikolayevna. In 1888 the family moved to Orenburg and in 1889 to Kazan, where his mother died. An aunt, Yelikonida Konstantinovna Myaskovskaya, gave him his first music lessons. He was enrolled in the Nizhniy-Novgorod Cadet Corps in…