Dudinsky was born in Moscow in the family of the international economist Ilya Vladimirovich Dudinsky. He was an active participant in the Moscow
bohemian life. 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. He worked as a special correspondent for
Ogoniok Magazine. From 1995 to 2005 he worked at the . 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 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==