Yevgeny Prigozhin, who served nine years in prison for theft, interfered in the US election and was accused of war crimes in Ukraine, is certainly not someone usually associated with children’s literature, writes The Moscow Times.

It was in 2004 that he undertook the writing of a children’s book with his two young children, Polina and Pavel. Only a few thousand copies were published and it was probably never released.

Titled ‘Indraguzik’, the book tells the story of a little boy and his sister who live with their family inside a huge theater chandelier.

According to the book’s foreword, Polina and Pavel suggested the names for the main characters and convinced their father “to invent a story about a tiny boy named Indraguzik and his sister Indraguza.”

Officially, the authors of “Indraguzik” are Prigozhin’s two children. However, the foreword to the book, of which only 2,000 copies were printed, states that the story was a collaboration between Prigozhin, his son and daughter.