Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future story
A time travel mishap results in building superintendent Ivan Vasilievich swapping places in time with Ivan the Terrible. And by some astonishing coincidence, they they are spitting images of one another.
8 total · 3 major · 5 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| past point of view | major | Ivan the Terrible was puzzled by manifold aspects of life in modern day Moscow. |
| time machine | major | Shurik invented a time machine in his apartment. |
| time travel | major | Ivan and George accidentally traveled back in time to the ear of Ivan the Terrible. Ivan the Terrible, by contrast, found himself with Shurik's in modern Moscow. |
| coping with getting dumped | minor | Shurik was startled when his wife abrupt told him she was leaving him for another man. |
| diplomacy | minor | Ivan Vasilievich impersonated Ivan the Terrible during a visit from the Swedish ambassador. |
| husband and wife | minor | Shurik and Zinaida. Ivan Vasilievich and Uliana Andreevna Bunsha. |
| time portal | minor | Shurik's time machine worked by generating a kind of portal that could be walked through. |
| what if I met my double | minor | Ivan Vasilievich was beside himself to find he was the spitting image of Ivan the Terrible and vice versa. |