Career
In 1918 Fondaminsky took part in the Jassy Conference. In France where he was living since immigration in 1919, Fondaminsky veered off from the left and became an influential newspaper editor (Sovremennye Zapisky, among others), author of philosophical essays and in the later years — much admired philanthropist, supporting Christian magazines and charity funds. Facing the Nazi occupation, Fondaminsky refused to leave Paris, saying he was willing to accept his destiny whatever it may be.
Ilya Fondaminsky died there on November 19, 1942.
In 2003 he was officially pronounced a Russian Orthodox saintly martyr by the Patriarch of Constantinople.