N. P. Osipov

Nikolay Petrovich Osipov
Born 1751
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died May 19, 1799(1799-05-19) (aged 48) O.S.
(May 30, 1838 N.S.)
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire

Nikolay Petrovich Osipov (Russian: Николай Петрович Осипов) (1751 in Saint Petersburg19 May [O.S. 30 May] 1799 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire), was a Russian writer, poet and translator.

He is best known for his mock-heroic 1791 poem Eneida travestied (Russian: Вирги́лиева Энеи́да, вы́вороченная наизна́нку).
Osipov's Eneida is a parody of Virgil's Aeneid, where the Trojan heroes talk like XVIII century Russians.

Osipov's Eneida (1791) and Kotliarevsky's Eneida (1798)

The first verses of Osipov's Eneida 1791 and Kotliarevsky's Eneida 1798

In 1798 Osipov's Eneida was translated into Ukrainian by Ivan Kotliarevsky

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