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 In the spring of 2013, in Russia’s Far East region of Primorye, forest rangers discovered a young tiger cub wandering alone through the snow. There was no sign of her mother. She was only a few months old—starving, exhausted, her legs frostbitten. She was on the brink of death. The rangers named her Zolushka “Cinderella” for this young tigress seemed as though she had stepped out of a fairy tale, returning from the very edge of disappearance.

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 Zolushka became the first tiger to take part in a pioneering program to reintroduce endangered Siberian tigers into the wild. After a year of care and rehabilitation, she was released into Russia’s Bastak Nature Reserve an area that had not seen a tiger for over forty years. With her arrival, the forest regained a missing piece of its balance. Zolushka did not merely pass through; she claimed it as her own. Soon her tracks deepened, her hunts grew frequent, and her presence echoed across the land.

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 A year later, in 2015, Zolushka was captured on camera roaming the forest with her first cubs. This was not only proof that Russia’s first rewilded tiger had survived, but that she was continuing her lineage. It was more than a biological triumph; Zolushka had become a living symbol of the fragile yet powerful bond between humans and nature.

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 In 2017 and again in 2020, she gifted the wild with three more cubs. Inspired by her enduring legacy, we create only a limited number of pieces in her honor.

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 Today, the tigers born in that forest live under her shadow thriving in the wilderness Zolushka once restored with her presence. To represent this guiding shadow, our work includes a polished sheet-metal detail shaped in Zolushka’s form. This element stands as a tribute to the indelible mark she left on the wild.​

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