Vladislav Alexandrovich Soloviev was born in 1973 in the city of Moscow, in the family of ordinary middle-level workers, his father was a designer engineer in a “Compass” construction bureau and his mother was a bookkeeper at the same company. In childhood, he was into history, in high school he went to locations of historically important battles, such as Borodino. Vladislav was not a social child, he preferred the Moscow libraries to judo and karate classes, popular among his peers at the time.