A lot of the great bells in Russia's many churches were destroyed and made into stuff like tractors
a single bell guy going around Russia teaching Russians how to ring the bells again
When the soviets turned Solovetsky Island into the prototype Gulag, the mini industries started and perfected by the monks over 6 centuries were wiped out, the herring fishers, the cabbage salters, the small shops populated by monks carrying centuries old secrets, all gone
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The bell making scene from Andrei Rublev is a good document about the work and trade secrets that went into bell making
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