Some little while ago, I found myself sitting in the grounds of the Danilov Monastery in Moscow, delighting in the spring flowers and being treated to a prodigious display of bell-ringing. I reflected at the time that the Russians have few peers among other nations in their great love for church bells. The Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky captures this love well when he orients his account of Russian history around the casting of a single great bell in his masterpiece, Andrei Rublev.
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