The Hypochondriac (Russian: Иппохондрик, romanized: Ippokhondrik) is a four-act comedy by Alexey Pisemsky first published in Moskvityanin's No.
As the play was rejected by censors in 1852, Pisemsky embarked upon re-writing it, following Mikhail Pogodin's advice.
Biblioteka Dlya Chtenya called it "excellent... highly intelligent comedy," even if "overblown" and sporting a hero that was "unspeakably dull".
Sovremennik (in an anonymous review the authorship of which was later ascribed to Nikolai Nekrasov) opined that the production was a success although the play itself "lacked even a modicum of thought".
The Theatre and Music Herald (Teatralny i muzykalny vestnik) called it "dry and somewhat dreary," but credited the actors involved (among them Prov Sadovsky and Nadezhda Rykalova) with saving it by providing "most expressive performances.