Campana Rossica Word on Russian Cultural Campanology

Save for the Soviet period, bells have always played a special role in the social life and culture of Russia. Confirmations can be found in history, film, literature, music, Orthodox churches bells' concerts, and works of campanology centres, researching bells in their specialist and cultural aspect. In this paper, mainly Moscow Bell Centre activities are discussed, constituting a part of the anthropologic and cultural tendency to preserve the heritage of the campana symbol in its widest and richest form.