 His father, Rudolf Naumovich Solovyov (born Vinitskovsky), and his mother, Inna Solomonovna Solovyova (née Shapiro), both graduated from the history and philology department of the Moscow State V. I. Lenin Pedagogical Institute.Later, his father taught political economy at a school of statistics, while his mother worked as an art critic at the Battle of Borodino museum.In 1980 he graduated from the elite, English-language secondary School no.