But Feo has grown up tough and strong and brave - after all, wolves are her only friends - and she is determined not to give in. Feo and her mother are ordered to shoot the wolves or be arrested. Trouble arrives one night in the form of the Russian army, who are not happy to have wolves released in the forests nearby, where they hunt and kill elks and birds. The wolf wilder is Feo's mother, and she has been teaching Feo everything she knows. The aristocracy believe that if you kill a wolf, you will be cursed, so the wolves are sent away to the wolf wilder, who will teach them how to survive in the wild - how to hunt and howl and be as fierce as they should be. But wolves are not happy to sit on velvet cushions in gilded rooms their whole lives long and eventually they snap, and a pampered aristocrat, or a servant, loses a finger or a toe. In pre-revolutionary Russia, the pampered aristocrats often keep wolves as pets.
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