Born on December 24, 1922 in Moscow. His mother, Vera Semyonovna Parusnikova-Nemenskaya (née Parusnikova), dentist, daughter of a priest.[1][2] After school, he studied at the Moscow Art School in Memory of 1905. In 1942, he graduated from the Saratov Art School and was drafted into the Red Army. He served in the Grekov Specialized Art Warehouse. He created a number of front-line drawings and sketches. In 1951, he graduated from the Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institute. He taught at the Potemkin Moscow State Pedagogical Institute (1957-1960), and the Lenin Moscow State Pedagogical Institute (1960-1962). Corresponding Member of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the Soviet Union since 1982, and a full member of the Russian Academy of Education since 1992. Since 1966, he has been a professor at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography Art Department. In 1966 he signed the Letter of the Twenty Five. He is the author of an original program for the aesthetic education of schoolchildren. He is a correspondent member of the Russian Academy of Arts since 2001 and a full member since 2007.[3] His second wife, Larisa Aleksandrovna Nemenskaya (born 1955) is candidate of philosophical sciences, honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts.[4]
