Alessandro Pavolini Pavolini was captured after a desperate escape attempt which saw him swimming across Lake Como and then trapped in a Mexican standoff over a half submerged rock. When Pavolini ran out of bullets, he was finally apprehended and executed by the partisans in Dongo. Before burial, his body was hung upside down in public, along with Mussolini, Mussolini's mistress Clara Petacci, the former Party Secretary Achille Starace, Nicola Bombacci and others in Piazzale Loreto, Milan. Alessandro Pavolini Alessandro Pavolini (September 27, 1903 – April 28, 1945) was an Italian politician, journalist, and essayist, notable for his involvement in the Fascist
The Mistress of the Copper Mountain (fairy tale) Book of Masters", a 2009 Russian language fantasy film, is loosely based on Bazhov's tales, mostly "The Mistress of the Copper Mountain" and "The Stone Flower". The 2012 opera "The Malachite Casket", based on "The Mistress of the Copper Mountain" and "The Malachite Casket", was created by Dmitry Batin. The Mistress of the Copper Mountain (fairy tale) "The Mistress of the Copper Mountain" (), also known as "The Queen of the Copper Mountain" or "The Mistress of the Copper Mine", is a folk tale (the so-called "skaz") of the Ural region of Russia collected and reworked by Pavel Bazhov. It