The parents were teachers, the uncle was the minister of the interior of Lithuania between the wars. in 1940 the father was arrested and exiled to Pechior. R. Skučaitė was exiled to Siberia in 1949. He worked at a woodworking factory there, and graduated from Zima High School. 1952-1956 studied French part-time at the Irkutsk Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages. 1953-1954 taught in Zima. in 1956 returned to Lithuania with his mother, settled in Vilnius. 1956-1959 He studied French language and literature at the Vilnius Pedagogical Institute (now the Lithuanian University of Education). He worked in the editorial offices of "Elta", "Genio", "Zvaigždutė", and "Vakariņių novų". in 1992 edited the magazine "On Mommy's Roads". Playwright, translator, author and translator of opera librettos, author of song texts, publicist. The first poems for adults appeared in print in 1957, and for children in 1959. "Geny" . Most of the work is intended for children.
