On September 12, after nearly 80 years, these "singing icons" were returned to the Danilovsky Monastery. In 1930, during a campaign of repression against the Russian Orthodox Church, Charles Crane, an American industrialist from Chicago, bought the bells of Danilovskiy Monastery in Moscow from the Soviets and donated them to Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Legend has it that Crane bought the bells to prevent them from being melted down, and paid only for the cost of the bronze that they contained. [Text] [History] [Sound]