Martyr Dmitry was born in 1871 in the village of Kryukovo, Naro-Fominsk volost, Zvenigorod district of Moscow province. He received his education in a rural school. From 1893 to 1897, he served in the army as a non-commissioned officer. From 1908 to 1917, he served as a rural constable in the Volokolamsk district. Since 1924, he began to fulfill the duties of a psalmist in the church in the village of Dedenovo, and later in the Transfiguration church in the village of Kryukovo.
With the onset of persecution against the Russian Orthodox Church, on January 26, 1938, he was arrested and imprisoned in Taganka prison. During the interrogation, he refused to provide testimony about the alleged anti-Soviet activities. On February 11, 1938, the NKVD troika sentenced him to execution. Martyr Dmitry was shot on February 17, 1938, and buried in an unknown common grave at the Butovo firing range near Moscow.
