April 18 marks one year since the release of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

The nearly 2-year saga embroiled the Trump administration and resulted in senior members of the president's campaign convicted of crimes and even going to jail.

Mueller's report found no explicit conspiracy between Trump's campaign and Russia to influence the last election, and it fell short of reaching a definitive conclusion on whether the president obstructed justice.

A year later, the Mueller probe's central characters have dispersed around the world, with some in prison and others holding new jobs and even more power.

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Remember Robert Mueller?

His 448-page Russia report has been fading from the American psyche since the moment it hit the internet a year ago Saturday.

That's right. The special counsel's investigation that so consumed the early days of Donald Trump's presidency has reached its first anniversary jockeying for position in the history books alongside other major stories of the Trump era.

There's of course the Ukraine scandal, which literally took root right as the Mueller probe had ended and ultimately led to the president's impeachment. And then there's the coronavirus, which now appears ready to be the defining event of the Trump presidency as thousands die and Americans cope with life under an unprecedented lockdown.

But let's back up for a moment. Real lives were swept up by the Mueller investigation, from the investigators themselves to the people who were being investigated.

As the Mueller report reaches its first milestone, here's a look at where some of the main characters of the probe ended up, from prison to promotions, from the Kremlin to the White House, and from obscurity to emboldened power.