N. P. Osipov

Nikolay Petrovich Osipov () (1751 in Saint Petersburg – in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian writer, poet and translator. He is best known for his mock-heroic 1791 poem () (; parts 5 and 6 were completed after his death by Aleksandr Kotelnitsky).

Osipov's Eneida is a parody of Virgil's Aeneid, where the Trojan heroes talk like 18th-century Russians.

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

Osipov's Eneida was a model for Ivan Kotliarevsky’s seminal 1798 Ukrainian-language version, although the latter used a different setting and adopted a new verse form.

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