He participated in the 1904 Russo-Japanese War, serving on the headquarters staff of the 18th Army Corps until 1906, when he was transferred to the Turkestan Military District.

Kornilov and his co-conspirators, including Romanovsky, were arrested in September and imprisoned in Bykhov (today Bykhaw in Belarus).

[2] After the October Revolution, however, Romanovsky escaped the prison with Kornilov and traveled to the Rostov region to seek allies among the anti-Bolshevik Don Cossacks.

[4] Romanovsky was not a popular figure due to his abrasive personality and his advice to Denikin during the summer of 1919 to not prioritize the siege of Tsaritsyn.

[6] On March 22, 1920, after the appointment of Pyotr Wrangel as Commander-in-Chief of the White forces, Romanovsky (along with Denikin) left Theodosia for Istanbul in Turkey.

[7] He was also member of a monarchist organization and, like many others on the Right, considered Romanovsky to be a "liberal," a freemason, and the chief architect of all the failures of the White cause.