Italian Social Republic collapsed. In Italy, this day is known as Liberation Day ("festa della liberazione"). On this day a general partisan uprising, alongside the efforts of Allied forces during their final offensive in Italy, managed to oust the Germans from Italy almost entirely. At the point of its demise, the Italian Social Republic had existed for slightly more than nineteen months. On 27 April, partisans caught Mussolini, his mistress (Clara Petacci), several RSI ministers and several other Italian Fascists while they were attempting to flee. On 28 April, the partisans shot Mussolini and most of the other captives. The RSI Minister of
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