Word: danilov
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Meanwhile in Moscow, Russian Orthodox clergy were jubilant that the bells were finally coming back to the 724-year-old Danilov Monastery, where they hung until an American industrialist rescued them from Josef Stalin’s campaign to convert religious artifacts into raw materials...
Meanwhile in Moscow, Russian Orthodox clergy were jubilant that the bells were finally coming back to the 724-year-old Danilov Monastery, where they hung until an American industrialist rescued them from Josef Stalin's campaign to convert religious artifacts into raw materials...
...brought Harvard's long-running negotiations with the Danilov Monastery to a close is Viktor F. Vekselberg, famous for reportedly paying $100 million in 2004 to bring the masterpieces of jeweler Peter Fabergé back to Moscow...
...Danilov Monastery reached out to Russians and asked for support for bringing the Lowell House bells back," Riley said. "Mr. Vekselberg's foundation has stepped forward and committed funds...
...Harvard,” that takes swipes at rival Houses. The video begins with Russian monks burning down Lowell’s belltower—presumably in retaliation for the House’s refusal to return its bells to the St. Danilov Monastery from which they came. The monks steal Adams House’s prized gong, initiating an apocalyptic conflict. The video also mocks Kirkland House’s alleged Francophile tendencies—its House master, Tom Conley, is also Harvard’s director of graduate studies in French. And Wilson pokes fun at Mather?...