Nikolay Petrovich Osipov (russian: Николай Петрович Осипов) (1751 in

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

– in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian writer, poet and translator. He is best known for his

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1791 poem (russian: Вирги́лиева Энеи́да, вы́вороченная наизна́нку, italic=yes; parts 5 and 6 were completed after his death by

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). Osipov's '' Eneida'' is a parody of

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'', where the

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heroes talk like 18th-century

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

Osipov's ''Eneida'' was a model for Ivan Kotliarevsky’s seminal 1798

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version, although the latter used a different setting and adopted a new verse form.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Osipov, Nikolay Petrovich 18th-century writers from the Russian Empire 18th-century male writers 1751 births 1799 deaths