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...used to make the casts for the replacements. The original bells came to Lowell in 1930, when American industrialist Charles R. Crane donated them to the University. He had purchased them in Russia, where Stalin was closing all of the churches and melting their bells for raw materials. The Danilov Monastery, the bells’ original home, was spared destruction and served as an orphanage for children of dissidents. The monastery reopened in 1988 and began negotiations with the University in December 2003 for the return of the bells. Talks stalled over the costs of sending the bells to Russia...
Over seventy years ago, in the face of Stalin’s anti-religious purge, the once-famed and numerous bells of Moscow were melted down. One of the few sets to survive the era, the seventeen bells of the St. Danilov monastery, was bought by American entrepreneur Charles R. Crane, who decided later to donate them to Harvard. In 1930, they became part of one of Harvard’s most distinctive architectural features: the Lowell House bell tower. Now, almost 20 years after the reopening of the monastery, multilateral talks between the Russian Orthodox Church, the Russian government...
...mildly clamorous—bell-ringing festivities.The Lowell House bells were purchased from the Soviet Union by Charles R. Crane, who presented them as a gift to Harvard in 1930. Since the fall of the USSR and the end of forced secularism in Russia, the monks of the Danilov Monastery—whence the bells originate—have been asking for their return. It seems this summer they may get them back, in exchange for a new set of bells to take their place in the Lowell tower. Currently, it’s high time for Christmas music...
...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...