On the question of comparing the concepts of phenomenon and reality in the works of Mikhail Karinsky and Gustav Shpet

In this article, the author provides a comparative, historical, and philosophical analysis of two texts written by prominent Russian philosophers and logicians. The first work was written in 1878 and belonged to the pen of Mikhail Ivanovich Karinsky (1840- 1917). His work “Yavleniye i deistvitelʹnostʹ” (“Phenomenon and Reality”) was published in Moscow in the journal Pravoslavnoye obozrenie (Orthodox Review). Te work “Yavleniye is smysl. Fenomenologiya kak osnovnaya nauka i ee problemy” (“Phenomenon and Meaning. Phenomenology as a Basic Science and Its Problems”), authored by Gustav Gustavovich Shpet (1879-1937), another prominent thinker, was published in 1914, and marked a turning point in the formation of Shpet as a major Russian philosopher of the 20th century. Both works had a significant influence on the development of phenomenology in Russia and its various interpretations