The paper addresses the work of the Swedish writer, missionary and women’s rights advocate  Maria Elisabeth Anholm (1851–1946). She visited the Caucasus and Georgia in 1893, which resulted in the publication of the book “I Gogs och Magogs land. Skildringar och studier från en resa i Kaukasien [In the land of Gog and Magog. Accounts and Studies from a journey in the Caucasus]” (1895).  Maria Anholm gives a personal account of her travels and stay in Georgia and Armenia. She has a special interest in portaying the different ethnic groups of the Caucasus, and writes extensively about the Georgians and Armenians, and also about the Circassians. Ossetians, Kists, Svanetians, Yezids, Tatars, Germans and others.