 In April 1919 he left Russia.Rudnev, like many Russian émigrés, moved to Paris, where along with his fellow SR Ilya Fondaminsky he founded "Sovremennye zapiski" [Contemporary Notes], which became the main literary journal of the Russian emigration (publishing, for instance, most of Nabokov's Russian-language work).Nina Berberova, in her memoirs, calls Rudnev "a very dear man" who did not understand literature.