Ippolit Shpazhinsky

Ippolit Vasilievich Shpazhinsky (Russian: Ипполит Васильевич Шпажинский; 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1848  15 February [O.S. 2 February] 1917) was a Russian playwright and poet. He is best known for his play The Enchantress (Чародейка), which Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky adapted as his opera of the same name.