Dmitriy Bykovskiy-Romashov lived in Central Asia until the age of 14. He did his compulsory military service in Hungary in a reconnaissance airborne company. In 1998 he graduated from the Voronezh State Academy of Arts (theater institute, V. Topolaga's course); later he graduated from GITIS (A.V.

Borodin's workshop). Since 2003 he has been an actor at the G. Tovstonogov St. Petersburg Bolshoi Drama Theater. He is a soloist of the group "Pyatiletka" and sings in the Russian chanson style. In the group he performed under the name "Dmitriy Bykov".