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MOSCOW—At the top of the bell tower of Danilov Monastery, fruit flies buzz around the dark metal bells and a cool breeze sweeps off the nearby Moscow river. The 11 bells hang in heavy silence, far ...

Lowell House’s historic Russian bells are officially headed back to the motherland, following a formal agreement inked in Moscow Tuesday between Harvard representatives and officials from the Danilov ...

Bill and Nancy Brown ring the bells of South Church in Concord as Pam Young watches on Friday at the appointed time of 4 p.m. Credit: GEOFF FORESTER / Monitor staff The City Beat is a free Monday ...

Seventeen Russian bells which hang in a Harvard University tower are destined to return to their spiritual home near Moscow after nearly 80 years in exile. The bells were saved from destruction at the ...

A set of antique bells given to Harvard University in 1930 is creating a bigger din than officials want to hear. The bells once belonged to Moscow’s Saint Danilov Monastery, thought to be the oldest ...

Every morning Father Roman winds his way up a narrow, stone stairway to take his place on a platform high above Moscow's rooftops. A softly spoken young monk with a long wispy beard, Father Roman has ...

Russia is bringing home from the United States 18 sacred Moscow monastery bells that had been sold as scrap by the Soviet Union. Charles Crane, a U.S. industrialist and diplomat, bought the Danilovsky ...