Known to Cloudy
- Ivan's patron in life was "Adrian" Petrescu.
- Ivan died some eighty years ago after he was stabbed with a poisoned dagger. The assailant was never caught.
- Silviu Petrescu revealed that Ivan was killed by a member of the Obsidian Blade as retaliation for something that he (Silviu) did; he did not fully expand on the nature of his slights against the cult.
- Ivan's death was a protracted one; he died weeks after he was poisoned.
- Ivan left several collections of unreleased compositions to the Petrescu estate in his will. Almost a century after his death, they remain unpublished.