Moscow (ENI). A foundry in the central Russian city of Voronezh has completed the casting of a 14-tonne bell for Harvard University, the latest chapter in an 80 year odyssey that has linked the US seat of learning with one Russian's most famous monasteries. The bell is the largest of a set to be sent to Harvard to replace 18 bells from the Danilovsky Monastery, the seat of the Russian Orthodox Church's Moscow Patriarchant. They ended up at Harvard after being sold in 1930 by the Soviet goverment as scrap metal to as US diplomat. Harvard is returning the original bells to the Moscow Monastery
Mon Feb 25, 2008 12:36 am