He was born in Minsk.
At the beginning of the war, his family was evacuated to Penza, and from there returned to Mogilev, where his relatives lived.
After Mogilev Machine Building Technical School, he was sent to the plant as a turner. I worked as a procurer and traveled half the country.
Two years later, he decided to stop his technical career and enrolled at the Belarusian State University, where he took a great interest in the drama club.
After being at BSU for a year he entered Belarusian State Institute of Theatre and Arts, department of directing (course by Vladimir Malankin).
During three years he underwent an internship with Y.Lyubimov at the Theatre on Taganka.
After graduation from the Belarusian State Tatar Technical Institute in 1967 joined the Yanka Kupala Theatre.
He has been the chief stage director since 1973 and has been the theater's artistic director since 1991.
During his career he staged over 35 productions of Russian and foreign drama on the stage of the Yanka Kupala Theatre.
Plays staged by Rajewski have been awarded prizes at many theater festivals.
He has staged a number of plays by Russian and Belorussian authors not only on Belorussian stages, but also abroad, including The Muddy Apostle by Matukovski (Slovene National Theatre), Pavlinka by Kupala (Kyiv Franko Academic Theatre), The Threshold by Dudarev (Luryk Theatre, Belfast, Ireland), The Government Inspector General by Nikolai Gogol (Drama Theatre, Ireland), The Guardsman by Ivano-Franko (Theatre of Kiev). He has collaborated with such theaters as Gogol's The Inspector General (A. Hungarian Drama Theatre, Bialystok, Poland), I. Maleev's Nadezhda Putnina (Moscow, Theatre on Malaya Bronnaya), Gogol's The Inspector General (Estonian National Theatre, Tallinn), V. Shukshin's Theatrical Character (St Petersburg, Akimov Theatre), A. Dudarev's Nesvizh Black Panna (Tyumen, Russia; Ufa, Bashkiria).
For a long time he has been a professor of Belorussian Academy of Arts and trained a great pleiad of talented creative youth, actors and directors, working today in different theaters of Belarus.
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