Shpet Gustav Gustavovich (1879–1937), leading Russian phenomenologist and highly regarded student and friend of Husserl. He played a major role in the development of phenomenology in Russia prior to the revolution. Graduating from Kiev University in 1906, Shpet accompanied his mentor Chelpanov to Moscow in 1907, commencing graduate studies at Moscow University (M.A., 1910; Ph.D., 1916). He attended Husserl’s seminars at Göttingen during 1912–13, out of which developed a continuing friendship between the two, recorded in correspondence extending through 1918. In 1914 Shpet published a meditation, Iavlenie i smysl (Appearance and Sense), inspired by Husserl’s Logical Investigations and, especially, Ideas I, which had appeared in 1913. Between 1914 and 1927 he published six additional books on such disparate topics as the concept of history, Herzen, Russian philosophy, aesthetics, ethnic psychology, and language. He founded and edited the philosophical yearbook Mysl’ i slovo (Thought and Word) between 1918 and 1921, publishing an important article on skepticism in it. He was arrested in 1935 and sentenced to internal exile. Under these conditions he completed a fine new translation of Hegel’s Phenomenology into Russian, which was published in 1959. He was executed in November 1937. See also HUSSERL , RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHY. P.T.G.