Dragilyov Dmitry (14 August 1971, Riga) — jazz pianist, arranger, poet.

Dmitry Dragilyov graduated from the Faculty of History and Philosophy of the University of Latvia, worked in radio and performed as a jazz pianist. Since 1994 he has lived in Germany (Erfurt), where he earned a master’s degree in musicology from the Weimar University of Music and did Slavic studies at the University of Jena.

Dmitry was pianist and arranger for the jazz ensemble The Swinging Partisans; he performes concert programmes across Germany and hosted a radio show. As a poet, his lyrics reflect the contemporary Russian literary movement that emerged in the 1970s known as metarealism. His work appears in the anthology Liberated Ulysses, and in literary journals such as Daugava, Kreshchatyk, Literary European, and Uralskaya Nov. He published a collection of poems titled Tea at Five (2001).

In addition to his artistic activities, he co‑founded the creative collective EXiLIBRIS (Experimental Literary Bureau of Russian Idealists of the Word) in Erfurt. In 2004, his poems were featured in the Anthology of Contemporary Russian Poetry Beyond Russia, published in Moscow by New Literary Review. Since 2005 he has lived in Berlin and holds German citizenship.