Harvard says 'dosvidanya' to Russian bells
Published: 08 July, 2008, 17:59
Generations of students at one of America’s premier seats of learning have listened to their haunting music. But after almost 80 years, the Russian bells at Harvard have stopped chiming. A lengthy campaign to bring them home is nearly over. Soon they’ll
The seventeenth-century bells were taken from the Danilov Monastery and sold to American businessman Charles Crane during the religious purges of the 1930s. He gave them to Harvard University in Massachusetts.
Attempts to recover the bells were first made almost 30 years ago.
They are being replaced by Russian-made replicas.
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