num_pages: 510
description: In October 1993, a novelist is invited to go to Stockholm and Russia to take part in what is enigmatically referred to as the Diderot Project. In Stockholm he is joined by various other members of the project—including an academic, a lustful opera singer, and a Swedish diplomat. On the journey to Russia more is revealed about the great Enlightenment writer Denis Diderot—the son of a knife maker in Langres, who went to Paris and compiled the Encyclopedia, a book that changed the world.
language: English
title: To the Hermitage
titlecomplete: To the Hermitage
genres: Russia, Historical, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, British Literature, Fiction, Books About Books
ratings_count: 229
publisher: Overlook Books