Dmitry Ivanovich Maevsky was born on 17 May 1917 in city Petrograd (former Saint Petersburg), Russian Empire.

In 1946–1953 he continued his studies in the private art studios of known Leningrad artist Piotr Buchkin, then of Alexander Kharshak.

It is distinguished by adherence to the traditions of tonal painting, restrained mild coloring with a predominance of green, blue and ocher tones, mastery of plein air, a few generalized pattern.

[5][6][7] Others examples of the creativity of Maevsky of middle and second half of 1950s and beginning of 1960s can serve the works «Thawed patchs»[8] (1955), «Barns»[9] (1956), «The New School», «A Suda River»[10] (both 1957), «Blast furnace», «Factory Yard», «Nizhniy Tagil City»[11] (all 1958), «Izhora Plant»[12] (1959), «Steel-maker»[13] (1960), «A Breath of Spring», «Portrait of Gorunov»[14] (1961), «Blue Shadows»[15] (1962), «At the Reading», «Frosty Day»,[16] «The Weather recovered»[17] (all 1963), «A Portrait of an Old Bolshevik Andreev»,[18] «Zoya - a Komsomol Member of Dzerzhinsky Sovkhoz» [19] (both 1964), and others.

And although he achieved considerable success, this genre and work to orders are increasingly perceived them as an inevitable tribute for the opportunity to engage in real creativity.

And here it all the more attractive landscape of Central Russia with a high sky and the vast expanses of fields, tending the horizon distances of the forest, the village outskirts, the March sun and the colors of autumn.

All that was done by Dmitry Maevsky in landscape painting, it was extremely sincere and deeply felt, foreign to the slightest hint of external effects, the play, imitation.

His paintings reside in Art museums and private collections in Russia,[32] in the U.S., England, Japan,[33] France,[34] and throughout the world.