Victor Bregeda working in the surrealism and metarealism styles. He was born in the Russian city of Taganrog into a family of painters.
He was attracted by the Dutch school of painting.
The artists who most inspired him were Leonardo da Vinci, Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Max Ernst, Nicholas Roerich, and he states, "I also like the French school of the 18th and 19th centuries... and in addition, the works of Andrew Wyeth.