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The Father Yaga legend is full of unknown. For some, the balance between death and life, for some, half the devil is half the angel of goodness. Although most of the paintings that illustrate him with the influence of Christianity show the Father Yaga to be quite wicked, it is in fact a creature with supernatural powers, also known as Yek in the Turkish myths, which roots up to the Scandinavian myths. But the most important feature of this existence is that it can accommodate good and evil at the same time, like Hürmuz and Ehrimen. If we consider Ivan Ilyic in this context, the character structure that we face in the novel reflects Tolstoy’s literary, religious, philosophical and sociological descent in a sense. Ivan Ilyic cannot be simply described as a character that captures himself to the blessings of this world and should not be described as a character. But how can a legend like Baba Yaga match one of the most beautiful examples of the Golden Age of the Russian novel? Here is our article where Ivan Ilyic, who is held somewhere between death and life, discusses the proximity and distance of the father Yaga, who stands in balance between death and life, will try to find the answer to this question.