Igor Dudinsky

Igor Ilyich Dudinsky (Russian: Игорь Ильич Дудинский; 31 March 1947 – 11 June 2022)^[1] was a Soviet and Russian journalist, writer, art critic, and visual artist.

Dudinsky in 2000

Biography

Dudinsky was born in Moscow in the family of the international economist Ilya Vladimirovich Dudinsky.^[2]

He was an active participant in the Moscow bohemian life.^[3][4] In 1965 he entered the MSU Faculty of Economics. He began to participate in the dissident movement and on 5 December 1965, he went to a demonstration in defense of Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel, after which he was expelled from the university.^[5]

He worked as a special correspondent for Ogoniok Magazine.

From 1995 to 2005 he worked at the Megapolis Express Publishing House [ru].^[5]

He was a Moscow correspondent for the literary and artistic almanac Muleta and the newspaper Evening Bell, which were published by the artist and art critic Vladimir Kotlyarov (Tolstoy)  [ru] who had emigrated to Paris. He was the deputy editor-in-chief of newspaper Literary News. He founded and published the newspaper The Last Pole and the magazine Continent Russia.

In 2007 he became the first deputy editor-in-chief of the Moscow Correspondent newspaper. In 2021, Dudinsky's fifth book Four Sisters was published

Family

Married for the thirteenth time.^[6] Daughter — film director Valeriya Gai Germanika.^[3][7]