Ivan Tsarevich

Different legends describe Ivan with different wives, including Yelena the Beautiful, Vasilisa the Wise and Marya Morevna.

The friends and foes of Ivan Tsarevich are often mythic figures, from magical animals to deathless beings.

In this story, a magical wolf aids Ivan as he captures the firebird and wins the hand of a beautiful tsarevna.

In another famous tale, part of which was also used by Stravinsky in The Firebird, Ivan Tsarevich married a warrior princess, Maria Morevna, who had been kidnapped by the immortal being called Koschei the Deathless.

[2] Ivan Tsarevich is also mentioned in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1871 novel Demons, (also known as The Possessed or The Devils) as an identity to transform the protagonist, Nikolai Stavrogin into, and thus thrust him into legendary status as a mascot of the new regime.