Introduction

Yuri Ivanovich Nekhoroshev was born on 14 April 1925 in Penza, a regional center 800 kilometers south-east of Moscow. In 1935 Ivanovich Nekhoroshev, hero of the Civil War, was expelled from the Party. His early talent for drawing and the natural interest in the fine arts led Ivanovich Nekhoroshev to The Penza Art College after the War, from which he graduated with the degree of Stage Designer. Ivanovich Nekhoroshev was involved in various literary enterprises. He never bowed to blind authority that regarded social realism as the most important direction for art in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. In 1999 the President of Russia awarded him the title of “Honored Artist”, and The Academy of Arts elected him “Honorary Academician”. Ivanovich Nekhoroshev was writing books until the day he died. He wrote using pen and ink, disdaining the use of a computer.