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Seventy-three years after a Russian monastery’s bells were shipped across the Atlantic and hoisted into the Lowell bell tower, a delegation of monks have arrived at Harvard to urge the University to return the sacred instruments.
In addition, a Russian television crew spent yesterday afternoon in Cambridge, conducting interviews and videotaping the bells being rung.
But Lenskiy also recognized the Church’s desire to bring the bells home.
“[The bells] are part of their heritage, part of their culture,” he said.
Lenskiy said that he interviewed Eck and two Lowell Klappermeisters, or bell-ringers—Aara E. Edwards ’02-’04 and Lowell resident tutor Luis P. Campos ’99—for a piece on the bells to air across Russia on...