These brave models show no fear as they pose with bears, tigers and wolves in scenes straight from the pages of a fairy tale. The snaps show the models cuddling up to the deadly animals and even taking naps with the often unpredictable creatures. In true storybook style, the images were taken deep in a forest just outside Moscow and were shot by photographer, Olga Barantseva. The bear, Stepan, is a 700-pound grizzly bear adopted by a Russian couple when he was just 3 months old. He is so tame that he watches television with his adoptive parents and often poses for Barantseva during photo shoots. Here: “Ira with a wolf and a fox”. (Photo by Olga Barantseva/Caters News Agency)





“Sasha with a bear”. “I contacted his owners, Svetlana and Yuriy Panteleenko, who adopted the bear – he was just 3 months old – and did my first photo shoot with him”. (Photo by Olga Barantseva/Caters News Agency)





“Nastya with owls”. In true storybook style, the images were taken deep in a snow-covered forest. (Photo by Olga Barantseva/Caters News Agency)





“Victoriya with wolves”. The photos were taken just outside Moscow... (Photo by Olga Barantseva/Caters News Agency)





“Yulia with a tiger”. The enchanting snaps show the models cuddling up to the deadly animals. (Photo by Olga Barantseva/Caters News Agency)





“Ayza with a bear”. Olga said: “I’ve always had this idea of photographing people together with the animals, and a couple years ago I saw a TV show about Stepan”. (Photo by Olga Barantseva/Caters News Agency)





“Kseniya with a bear”. Stepan is so tame that he watches television with his adoptive parents and often poses for Olga during photo shoots. (Photo by Olga Barantseva/Caters News Agency)





“Alena with wolves”. “So I started searching for other animals online to picture such as wolves and foxes. I am trying to shoot scenes from popular Russian fairy tales as most of them have animals as their main characters”. (Photo by Olga Barantseva/Caters News Agency)





“Yulia with an owl” …and were shot by photographer, Olga Barantseva. (Photo by Olga Barantseva/Caters News Agency)





“Mariya with a bear”. Models even take naps with the often unpredictable creatures. (Photo by Olga Barantseva/Caters News Agency)





“Anastasiya with a crocodile”. “This time I decided that shooting with other animals might be interesting”. (Photo by Olga Barantseva/Caters News Agency)





“Marina with a bear”. Stepan, a 700-pound grizzly bear, was adopted by a Russian couple when he was just 3 months old. (Photo by Olga Barantseva/Caters News Agency)





“Polina with a bear”. These brave models show no fear as they pose with bears, tigers and wolves in scenes straight from the pages of a fairy tale. (Photo by Olga Barantseva/Caters News Agency)