Dimitri Romanov was born on 17 May 1926 in Antibes, Alpes-Maritimes, France. He was married to Dorrit Reventlow and Jeanne von Kauffman. He died on 31 December 2016 in Denmark.
He performed in the ballet, "The Nutcracker," in a Moscow City ballet production at the Congress Theatre in Eastbourne, East Sussex, England with Mikhail Ronnikov, Evgenia Vorobieva, and Natalia Shelokova in the cast.