Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet and academic (b. 1743)

Ippolit Fyodorovich Bogdanovich (Russian: Ипполи́т Фёдорович Богдано́вич, IPA: [ɪpɐˈlʲit ˈfʲɵdərəvʲɪtɕ bəɡdɐˈnovʲɪtɕ] (listen); 3 January 1744 [O.S. 23 December 1743], Perevolochna – 18 January [O.S. 6 January ] 1803, Kursk) was a Russian classicist author of light poetry, best known for his long poem Dushenka (1778).