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Moscow’s Danilov Monastery lost its original bells when the Soviet Union sold them to American businessman Charles Crane, who in turn donated them to Harvard in 1929.
University President Lawrence H. Summers said in September that the cost of returning the bells could be prohibitive, but that he would be willing to discuss the possibility with the monks.
And a former Lowell master estimated last year that returning the bells could cost tens of millions of dollars.
And while a prominent Russian bell-ringer told the St. Petersburg Times last year that the University should foot the bill for returning the bells, church leaders have been more moderate and have talked about raising their own funds to finance the bells’ shipment.
“It is Harvard’s right to say [what] will be done because they legally received the bells,” Father Innokentiy Okhovoy, the monastery’s administrator, said this summer.