Word: moscow
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After nearly 80 years in the Lowell House belltower, Harvard’s historic Russian bells may be heading home to a centuries-old monastery in Moscow as early as next summer...
Harvard’s project manager for the bells said last week that a foundation backed by a Russian metals mogul has agreed to pay roughly $1 million to transport the 25 tons of sacred bronze back to Moscow and buy replacements for Lowell, possibly ending a decades-long ordeal in which Harvard sought to repatriate the bells but declined to pay for their transfer...
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...
...Moscow offices could not be reached for comment...