Death of Benito Mussolini Milan, where he had been based, and tried to escape to the Swiss border. He and his mistress, Claretta Petacci, were captured on 27 April by local partisans near the village of Dongo on Lake Como. Mussolini and Petacci were shot the following afternoon, two days before Adolf Hitler's suicide. The bodies of Mussolini and Petacci were taken to Milan and left in a suburban square, the Piazzale Loreto, for a large angry crowd to insult and physically abuse. They were then hung upside down from a metal girder above a service station on the square. The bodies were beaten,
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