Early Life
Dmitry Grigorieff was born in London in 1919. His father, Dmitry Dmitrievich Grigorieff, was the governor of Sakhalin and also served on the Central Board of the Russian Red Cross. The family had fled Russia in 1918 during the Russian Revolution. They first fled to Riga, Latvia, and then to London, where Grigorieff was born.
The Grigorieffs moved to Japan in the early 1920s. Dmitry Grigorieff was baptized at St. Nicholas Church in Tokyo. The family returned to Riga after the end of the Russian Civil War where Grigorieff began studying at the Orthodox Theological Institute.
Dmitry Grigorieff, who was a British citizen, left Riga and moved to Australia during World War II. He served in the British Merchant Marines in the Pacific from 1943 to 1944. He moved to New York City in 1945, where he worked in the British Office of War Information.
Grigorieff earned a master's degree in linguistics and comparative literature from Yale University in 1948. He later received a doctorate in from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1958 and a diploma in theology from St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary in New York.
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