Born in 1974 in Penza, Vladislav started drawing at the age of six. At sixteen he joined the Savitsky Academy in Penza. In 2001 he graduated at the Ilya Glazounov Academy of Fine Arts. His specialization in historical subjects requires a strong discipline to recreate the characters, costumes, decoration details and narrative subjects. Vladislav Nagornov has followed the influence of such Russian artists as Ilya Repin, Vasily Surikov and Alexander Ivanov.