In 1839/40 Anne Lister, together with her wife, Ann Walker, travelled to Russia and the Caucasus, where she suddenly died. While I was working on my biography of Lister, I followed their steps from Saint Petersburg via Moscow to Nizhny Novgorod, and from there along the Volga river to Kazan. Another trip took me from the Russian-Georgian border in the Dariali Gorge via Tbilisi, Kutaisi and Zugdidi in Georgia to Baku in Azerbaijan. Doubts accompanied every step of my biographical research. What do towns, landscapes and people still have to reveal about Anne Lister? My road trip through the Caucasus ends figuratively in my biographer’s garage: What do we really discover when we try to travel back in time? What do we involuntarily or even necessarily invent in writing Anne Lister’s life? What did she invent already while writing (she herself being her first biographer)? Is there any history without a narrator? Which history? Whose biography? For the volume Decoding Anne Lister, I have chosen several sections from Travelling in Time, which will be translated into English for the first time. These cover Anne Lister and Ann Walker’s journey through the Georgian mountains from the end of June until the beginning of August 1840.