On September 15, 1801, the foreman Nikita Kondratiev arrived from Moscow to raise the bells, and he began preparations for removing the bells on the 16th; on the 17th, he lowered the smaller bells from the old belfry, and on the 18th, he lowered the 100-pood (1 pood being equal to 16.38 kilograms), the 200-pood, and the 300-pood bells, which he moved to the new belfry that same day. On the 19th, he prepared the rigging for raising the bells to the belfry and, after blessing the water and sprinkling all the bells with it, fixed the 200-pood bell and successfully raised it to the third floor. On the 20th, that is, on Friday afternoon, they raised the 500-pood bell to the third floor, and the 200-pood and 300-pood bells to the fourth floor, while on Saturday, preparations were made to hang them in place. On the 22nd, that is, on Sunday, they hung the 300-pood bell in its place, and the 500-pood bell was brought to the fourth floor; they intended to hang it in place, but the block broke, so it was successfully hung on Monday, the 23rd, in the morning, thank God, and in the afternoon, the 200-pood and the 100-pood ones were hung. On the 24th, they hung the 80-pood bell and all the smaller bells, attached all the clappers, and they rang all the bells. The bells were raised by all the local folks; the announcement had been made in the following villages: in the village of Balykovo, in the village of Kremyonki, in the villages of Ruzanovo, Knyaz Ivanovo, and Sinovka, in the village of Yelizaryevo, Lomasovo, and others surrounding this monastery. However, the peasants from Count Tolstoy’s village of Yelizaryevo and his other villages worked the hardest to raise the bells, with many of them being factory workers, as there is a cloth factory in Yelizaryevo. On September 27, foreman Nikita Kondratiev, who had the bells raised, left the monastery for Moscow in the morning; he was of medium height, bald, and had a medium-sized gray beard.