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...monastery??€™s campaign to bring their bells home began in 1984 when a U.S. ambassador to the U.S.S.R. first informed the archimandrite of the bells whereabouts...
From the very top of the monastery??€™s pink stucco tower, Father Roman Ugrinko, the senior bell ringer, points out the Moscow sites that have become familiar to him during his three years at Danilov—the Zil auto factory, the bend of the Moscow river, the sparkle of the Kremlin’s gold onion domes in the distance and the imposing Soviet-style cardboard box buildings that elbow the skyline...
...behind its 14th century walls, the monastery??€”and its bell tower—have been constantly ripped apart and pieced back together through these transitions...
According to the monastery??€™s administrator, Father Innokentiy Okhovoy, Summers sent them a reply in May saying that he would be willing to further discuss the bells with the monks...
...return of the bells, they say, would complete the monastery??€™s restoration from its days as a Soviet prison and signify the end of a long and winding journey...