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Seventeen of the bells will be installed in the Lowell belltower during the summer of 2008. An 18th bell will take the place of one hanging in the Business School's Baker Library. To make sure that future Sunday melodies on Mt. Auburn Street are on key, the agreement outlining...
Viktor Vekselberg, the oil and metals tycoon who reportedly paid several millions of dollars to bring the bells home and to replace them with new ones, said he hoped they would become a "great symbol of unity" between the United States and Russia.
"These bells will, of course, be our ambassadors to faraway America on the other side of the ocean, and let them always ring only for peace and friendship," he said.
"Some suggested we should have English bells or Russian bells, but no—we felt that our history was entwined with yours here in Russia," she told the crowd, wearing a black headscarf in accordance with Orthodox custom.
"To think that when you have Commencement our bells ring, and for their entire history, for 400 years, they rang in Russia and then ended up at Harvard, with students, at a university—all this is very touching," said Elena, 49, a school teacher.