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...bells came from the St. Danilov Monastery in Moscow, where officials miss their distinct sounds and are calling for their return after 72 years of Harvard possession. They’ve set a return deadline—March 2003 at the latest, the 700th anniversary of St. Danilov??s death...
...bells, which were originally crafted for the monastery in the 17th and 18th centuries, were purchased from St. Danilov??s in the 1920s by industrialist Charles Crane when the Russian government threatened to melt them...
Although St. Danilov??s bell tower is not empty today and contains substitute bells, Father Roman Ugrinko, the current ringer, told the Moscow Times that “the bells have a weak sound, and they don’t play well together because they come from different churches. But to ring the original bells—that would be a pleasure...
...said she imagined a similar scenario in which some of the smaller bells could be presented to St. Danilov??s as a “symbolic rendering” of Harvard’s concern and suggestive of returning the rest at some future point...