Katharina die Große (Catherine the Great) (1935) In your hands is finally a properly published famous biography of the great Catherine II, which 70 years ago was published by Russian emigrants in Riga and has since been photocopied in hundreds and thousands copies as an unsurpassed example of the biographical genre: it says everything. A stylistically corrected translation from German by V. Zlatogorsky was used, published in the 1930s in Riga by the Russian emigrant publishing house "Dzive un kultura". About the author: Gina Kaus (10/21/1893 - December 23, 1985), born Regina Wiener, is an Austro-American writer and screenwriter.