Voivodes in Popular Culture
In Bram Stoker's Dracula (Chapter 3), as Count Dracula recounts his genealogy to Jonathon Harker, he claims that the voivode who "crossed the Danube and beat the Turk on his own ground" was a Dracula. In Chapter 18, Van Helsing speculates that this was Count Dracula himself.
Among Russians, there are at least three significant works involving voivodes.
- Tchaikovsky's first opera, Voyevoda, Op.3, was based on Alexander Ostrovsky's play.
- Tchaikovsky's later orchestral work, the symphonic ballad The Voyevoda, Op.78, was based on Alexander Pushkin's translation of Adam Mickiewicz's poem. It has the same name as the opera but is otherwise unrelated to it. Anton Arensky later produced his own operatic adaptation of the play as A Dream on the Volga.
- Rimsky-Korsakov's differently sourced opera Pan Wojewoda, while composed to a Russian text, is set in Poland.
In the video game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, The Boss is also known as Voyevoda by the Soviets, as referenced in the game by President Johnson.
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