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Crane, a Harvard graduate, then presented the 18 bells to University President A. Lawrence Lowell as a gift in 1930, the year that Lowell House was being built as part of the president’s new residential plan for the College.
Resident tutor Luis A. Campos ’99, a former House bell ringer, said the bells are physically beautiful, including “inscriptions, carvings and a beautiful green patina.”
The bells have been rung almost constantly since the House was built and became such an important part of the House that in the 1950s students founded the Lowell House Society of Russian Bell Ringers, which still exists.
Although St. Danilov’s bell tower is not empty today and contains substitute bells, Father Roman Ugrinko, the current ringer, told the Moscow Times that “the bells have a weak sound, and they don’t play well together because they come from different...
This attempt to regain the bells is not the monastery’s first. When Bossert was master of Lowell in the late 1980s, the Archbishop of Moscow requested that Harvard return the bells.