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...manager, Peter Riley of Harvard Real Estate Services, said the University is currently soliciting proposals from Russian foundries to replicate the bells for Harvard. Riley and Lowell House Master Diana L. Eck were part of a Harvard delegation that took a whirlwind tour of Russian foundries and belfries in August in preparation for the bells' return...
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...
...interview with a Russian newspaper Thursday, the head of the monastery, Archimandrite Aleksy Polikarpov, heralded the agreement with Harvard as a testament to the fact that "the past and the present are interwoven especially tightly in monastery life...
...exchange will be paid for by the foundation, Link of Time, Riley said. That follows a condition set out by Harvard in 2003, when it commissioned a study to send the bells back and stipulated that "costs such as construction, transportation and bell-replacement would be borne by the Russian side...
...Seventeen of Harvard's Russian bells hang in the Lowell belltower; the other sits atop the Business School's Baker Library. They are more than 100 years old, with one dating back to the 17th century, according to the Lowell House website...