Abstract. The author analyses chronotopical shift between the right and the real in Russian culture. The phenomenology of the right and the real is considered within the context of reconstructing a chronotope of the cultural worldview. The tensity between the right and the real eventuates in the institutional sphere, which provides for embedding ideal representations in social regulatory system. In Russia, the progress of the notion of “the right and the real” was made against the weak institutional possibilities to implement related ideals, which predetermined both the specificity of the power chronotope and the character of social dynamics of culture in Russia.