Yevgeny Prigozhin
Yevgeny Prigozhin at a foreign investors meeting in St. Petersburg in 2016.
  • The head of a Russian mercenary group fighting in Ukraine once wrote a children's book.
  • Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner Group, is believed dead after an explosion on his plane.
  • 20 years ago, Prigozhin wrote a children's book about a tiny man finding his way back to his family.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is now maybe dead after an explosion felled his private plane this week, might have once believed there was nothing he couldn't do.