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Meanwhile in Moscow, Russian Orthodox clergy were jubilant that the bells were finally coming back to the 724-year-old Danilov Monastery, where they hung until an American industrialist rescued them from Josef Stalin’s campaign to convert religious artifacts into raw materials.
“[The bells] were there more than 70 years, and now they are close to being returned to their ancestral home,” the Trud (Labor) newspaper quoted Aleksy as saying.
Aleksy visited Harvard in 2003 in a bid to have the bells returned. In an e-mail to Lowell House earlier this month, Eck and Co-Master Dorothy A. Austin wrote that “we will certainly have another visit from Russia to Lowell House” this academic...
“The Danilov Monastery reached out to Russians and asked for support for bringing the Lowell House bells back,” Riley said. “Mr. Vekselberg’s foundation has stepped forward and committed funds.”
Everything related to the bell exchange will be paid for by the foundation, Link of Time, Riley said. That follows a condition set out by Harvard in 2003, when it commissioned a study to send the bells back and stipulated that “costs such as construction, transportation and...