Dimitri Yakov Marick, aka Count Andrassy, arrived in Pine Valley in the autumn of 1991. He was briefly involved with Natalie Hunter, but the relationship failed when his first wife, Angelique, reappeared. He also gained a brother, Edmund, previously thought to have been merely a boyhood acquaintance but in fact the son of Hugo Marick. A drunken youthful dalliance with a maid, Corvina Lang, had produced a son, Anton.

Dimitri had at one time wanted to take over Erica Kane’s company, Enchantment, but instead fell in love with Erica. They were married, but the marriage failed when, in 1992 Kendall Hart showed up and was revealed to be the product of Erica's rape at age 14 by Richard Fields, a friend of her father's. Erica and Dimitri divorced after she stabbed him, thinking he had raped Kendall. Later, after an affair with the evil Dr. Jonathan Kinder, Erica learned that she was pregnant with Dimitri's child. Still in love with him, she asked Dimitri to remarry her, unaware that he had slept with their sister-in-law, Maria Grey, after catching Erica in what appeared to be a compromising position with Jonathan. Erica miscarried Dimitri’s baby on what would have been their wedding day (round two). Maria later produced a son, which Skye Chandler arranged to appear to be Dimitri’s.

Dimitri managed to maneuver Stuart Chandler into giving him WRCW, but Liza Colby produced an obscure FCC rule about foreign-born ownership, and got the station away from him.

Dimitri managed to steal Gloria Marsh away from Tad Martin through a series of schemes, ultimately making it look like Tad had cheated on Gloria with Liza. And they were married. When the plane crash took Maria’s life, Dimitri, who had recently learned that Maddie was Edmund’s, took Maddie and Gloria and fled the country. Edmund and Tad found them in Vadzel and brought them back, then schemed to get Dimitri to admit that the baby wasn’t his. He did so, with Gloria overhearing the confession. In a rage, he stormed out and was hit by a falling tree branch. Gloria managed to restart his heart, but he’d learned his lesson about manipulating people (for the time being, anyway) and promised to get his life on track.

It took some time, but he and Edmund grew close enough that when the evil Jim Thomason kidnapped Edmund and imprisoned him in an aqueduct, Dimitri raced to the rescue. He did manage to free Edmund, but Jim returned and Brooke shot him to death in the Chandler Gallery. Dimitri tried to take the blame, but Brooke wouldn’t let him and admitted to the crime. Dimitri stood by her during the trial (and subsequent acquittal) and the two grew close, but the relationship never amounted to more than friendship.

After the aqueduct incident, Dimitri began having dizzy spells. He went to Europe to have it investigated, and it was revealed to be a rare brain disorder. His neurologist, Dr. Alexandra Devane got the disease into remission, and at the same time the two fell in love. They returned to Pine Valley as husband and wife, and Dimitri subsequently appeared to have died, but in fact his new wife had him hidden away at Seaview Hospital. A stem cell treatment (supposedly using cells from Colby Chandler but in fact switched by Adam for another sample) saved his life, but he left the hospital and was thought to have walked into the ocean to commit suicide. As it turned out, he was in Wales, held prisoner by Alex’s mother. Alex and Edmund, who’d fallen in love themselves, believing Dimitri to be dead, unraveled the mystery of Alex’s past and got mother Charlotte out of the way. Dimitri, critically ill, managed to make his way back to Pine Valley and enlisted the secret help of Dr. David Hayward to try to save his life. He didn’t want anyone else to know he was still alive, since he believed he would soon die anyway and didn’t want them all to suffer the loss twice.

Hayward, with the help of Alex (unbeknownst to her, of course) was successful in his treatment, and Dixie finally convinced Dimitri to come forward.  Dixie sent Alex to the Hunting Lodge where she and Dimitri had a joyous reunion.  Edmund was shocked to learn that his brother was alive, and when Edmund saw that Alex and Dimitri were reunited, all thoughts of marriage to Edmund gone from her mind, he went a little crazy.  Alex and Dimitri are currently planning to travel to Budapest to renew their vows - if Edmund and his nightmare visions of Alf don't get in the way!