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Representatives of the monastery have been seeking the return of the bells for almost 20 years, but intensified their quest last year before the 700th anniversary of the death of St. Danil, the monastery’s founder.
The monks then joined Lowell’s bell-ringers—known as Klappermeisters—as they played the bells Friday and Sunday.
“They were treated less as an instrument and more as an attribute of church service,” he said of the bells’ history. “In a way it doesn’t seem quite right that bells made for religious purposes are...
Though Lowell residents praised Ogryzkov’s bell-playing, they disagreed on the main question surrounding the visit—whether the bells should be returned to Moscow.
“I think that Lowell and Harvard have the right to [the bells],” said Mary C. Serdakowski ’06. “They define who Lowell House is.”