Word: hierodeacon
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...yesterday afternoon were treated to the sounds of five undergraduate klappermeisters honing their bell ringing skills. High above in the belltower, students pressed footpedals as others pulled at an intricate web of ropes above. Their teachers included none other than the bell ringer of the Kremlin, Igor Konovalov, and Hierodeacon Roman Ogryzkov, chief bell ringer of the Danilov Monastery in Moscow. The Russian musical duo is teaching three master classes to the five undergraduate members of the Lowell House Society of Russian Bell Ringers. Their visit is the result of a long saga centered on the acquisition of the bells...
...Russian delegation—which included Archimandrite Alexy Polikarpov, the father superior of the monastery, Danilov’s chief bell-ringer, Hierodeacon Roman Ogryzkov and Alexie Rogar from the Russian Consulate in New York—also met with Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 and dined with Lowell House Masters Diana L. Eck and Dorothy A. Austin...
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