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It’s that time of the century again: years of serfdom behind them, the Russians are cooking up another experiment in miserable failure. But the group of Orthodox monks that stumbled its way from Moscow to Cambridge recently didn’t seem to have any plans as...
University President Lawrence H. Summers was more concrete this summer. He said that he thought the cost of removing the bells might be an unavoidable obstacle.
Danilov representatives say the Soviets looted the bells and have sought their return for almost 20 years. Their quest intensified last year before the 700th anniversary of the death of St. Danil, the monastery’s founder.
“The parties have agreed...that it is necessary and timely to settle the question of the return of these bells to the Danilov Monastery,” the statement read.
“I had understood that there are some important individuals in Russia who would like to gain favor with the Russian Orthodox Church [by paying for the bells],” Bossert said last year.