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- BIOGRAPHY:
1. First name is also known as Voloda.
2. Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Landau accessed 18 Nov 2014:
"Vladimir Maximilianovich Landau (Russian: Владимир Максимилиа́нович Ланда́у) March 29 [O.S. March 16] 1902 – September 24, 1971) was a Russian-born Monegasque tennis player. In 1931 he was the 14th on the French rankings, which included players of all nationality provided that they played in and represented a French sports club.[7]
Early life and family[edit]
Vladimir Landau was born on March 29, 1902 in Petrograd to Maximilien Landau and Anna Herzenberg.[2] He had a sister Alice who was a famous ballet dancer under the pseudonym Alice Nikitina.[8] After World War I the family moved to Monaco.
Tennis career
In 1928 he reached the quarterfinal of the doubles at Monegasque Championships alongside Ludwig von Salm Hoogstraten.[9] The next year he was defeated in the doubles final of the Beaulieu L.T.C. tournament partnering László Dörner of Romania.[10] Also in 1929 he took a major part with his two victories in the first ever Davis Cup tie and victory of Monaco against Switzerland at home and advanced into the second round where they faced Hungary in Budapest.[1][11] Although they lost Landau scored both victories of his team.[1] In the 1930 French Championships he was the eleventh seed and was eliminated in the third round.[4] In January 1931 at the Beausite Club de Cannes Cup he won the doubles contest with his teammate Hillyard.[12] In February he won a triple crown at the Monte Carlo Country Club tournament beating Hillyard in singles, partnering with him for the doubles victory against Garcia/Chastel and clinching the mixed doubles with British Phyllis Satterthwaite from Garcia/Mrs. Richards.[13] In March he was a runner-up for the Bordighera Championships doubles partnering Béla von Kehrling and only lost to the Irish-Italian duo of George Lyttleton-Rogers and Alberto del Bono.[14] In May in an unofficial challenge between the Davis Cup teams of Monaco and Netherlands his team claimed a clean win with Landau's back-to-back victories over Jan van der Heide, Ody Koopman in two singles and a doubles .[15] In the very first tournament of the 1932 season in Beaulieu Landau, assisted by Irish champion Lyttleton-Rogers, earned the doubles title after a five-set battle.[16] In 1934 he ceded the Monegasque Championships to Charles Aeschlimann in straights sets.[17] In 1936 at the Menton tournament he fell to Norcross Tilney in the semifinals.[18] In January 1937 he captured the Beausite L.T.C. doubles trophy with Kho Sin Kie but unfortunately they met in the singles final as well where in the end Kho was triumphant after a five-set battle wrapping the match with a love-set.[19] He also reached the final of the mixed doubles with Simone Matthieu.[20] In February at the Carlton-Cannes tournaments he aligned with Mrs Merricks and dropped the mixed semifinals to Weiwers and Karstend.[21] In September in Menton in the semifinal encounter between him and compatriot Gaston Médecin he was beaten in two sets but they won the doubles title together.[22]
In the Davis Cup Landau played 15 ties between 1929-1947 and compiled an 11/30 winning record.[1]
Controversies
In April 1947 Landau was summoned to court and to testify in the case of an English lady named Edna Clayton who was accused of breaching the Defence Finance regulations. When Mrs. Clayton spent her holiday in Monte Carlo he ran out of cash and after borrowing some from her host friend she still needed to pay her trip back to England. The friend called for Landau who offered to lend her money. Although her cheque was post-dated he gave £50 in an unusually high exchange rate.[23] This deception was revealed to be related to Max Intrator,[23] or "Palestine Max" an international warrant smuggler and cheque fraud who was arrested in the same month and who indirectly cashed in cheques worth more than £75, a sum that the post-war Treasury allowed to be spent abroad.[24][25][26] People who accepted cheques from British subjects on the Continent on behalf of Intrator were believed to be aware of the currency crime circle and thus got prosecuted.[26]
Personal life
After World War II Landau worked as a secretary of the Monte Carlo Tennis Club.[23] He married Janine Marie-Louise Regnart on January 26, 1945 in Paris.[2] The same year their son Patrick Landau was born who later also became a tennis player and a member of the Monaco Davis Cup team [27][28][29] Later Patrick was drafted to the US Junior Davis Cup team where he was coached by his father who was the team captain as well.[30] He studied in the Brigham Young University where he trained in the BYU Cougars.[29] There he was the Western Athletic Conference tennis singles and team champion.[29] He was also the singles and doubles champion of Monaco (also junior champion before), Durham doubles champion and runner-up in French Junior Championships.[29][31] Vladimir died on September 24, 1971 in Hannover but was buried in Monaco five weeks later.[2]
References
1. Daviscup.com. "Vladimir Landau profile". London, Great Britain: International Tennis Federation. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
2. Chris & Julie Petersen; Joseph Tarbert (2008). Darrin Lythgoe, ed. "Vladimir Landau". Petersen-Tarbert Family Tree. Anchorage, Alaska, United States: The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
3. "Roland-Garros 1929 (Grand Slam) - Men singles" (pdf). fft.fr. Paris, France: Fédération Française de Tennis. 2006. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
4. "Roland-Garros 1930 (Grand Slam) - Men singles" (pdf). fft.fr. Paris, France: Fédération Française de Tennis. 2006. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
5. Béla Kehrling, ed. (10 June 1929). "A férfi páros mezőnye [The doubles draw]" (in Hungarian) (pdf). Tennisz és Golf. I (Budapest, Hungary: Bethlen Gábor Irod. és Nyomdai RT) 3: 67. Retrieved September 22, 2012.
6. "Tennis in France". Auckland Star (Auckland, New Zealand) LXV (124): 16. May 28, 1934. Retrieved November 16, 2012.
7. Béla Kehrling, ed. (December 25, 1929). "Külföldi hírek" [International news] (PDF). Tennisz és Golf (in Hungarian) (Budapest, Hungary: Egyesült Kő-, Könyvnyomda, Könyv- és Lapkiadó Rt) I (15-16): 349. Retrieved November 14, 2012.
8. Chris & Julie Petersen; Joseph Tarbert (2008). Darrin Lythgoe, ed. "Alice Landau". Petersen-Tarbert Family Tree. Anchorage, Alaska, United States: The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
9. "Monte Carlo Tournament". Townsville Bulletin (Townsville, Australia: The North Queensland Newspaper Company) L (86): 5. April 14, 1928. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
10. Béla Kehrling, ed. (May 10, 1929). "Külföldi hírek" [International news] (PDF). Tennisz és Golf (in Hungarian) (Budapest, Hungary: Bethlen Gábor irod. és Nyomdai Rt) I (1): 14. Retrieved November 14, 2012.
11. "History of the Monaco Tennis Federation". monaco-tennis.com. Monte-Carlo, Monaco: Fédération Monegasque de Tennis. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
12. Béla Kehrling, ed. (January 28, 1931). "Külföldi hírek" [International news] (PDF). Tennisz és Golf (in Hungarian) (Budapest, Hungary: Bethlen Gábor írod. és Nyomdai Rt) III (2): 41. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
13. Béla Kehrling, ed. (February 28, 1931). "Külföldi hírek" [International news] (PDF). Tennisz és Golf (in Hungarian) (Budapest, Hungary: Bethlen Gábor írod. és Nyomdai Rt) III (3-4): 64. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
14. Béla Kehrling, ed. (April 3, 1931). "Tennis and Golf" (PDF). Tennisz és Golf (in Hungarian) (Budapest, Hungary: Egyesült Kő-, Könyvnyomda. Könyv- és Lapkiadó Rt.) III (7). Retrieved November 15, 2012.
15. Béla Kehrling, ed. (May 15, 1931). "Külföldi hírek" [International news] (PDF). Tennisz és Golf (in Hungarian) (Budapest, Hungary: Egyesült Kő-, Könyvnyomda. Könyv- és Lapkiadó Rt.) III (10): 186. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
16. Béla Kehrling, ed. (January 30, 1932). "Külföldi hírek" [International news] (PDF). Tennisz és Golf (in Hungarian) (Budapest, Hungary: Egyesült Kő-, Könyvnyomda, Könyv- és Lapkiadó Rt) IV (1): 14. Retrieved November 11, 2012.
17. A. Heldring, ed. (January 16, 1934). "Sport-snippers" [Sport bits] (pdf). Algemeen Handelsblad (in Dutch) (Amsterdam, Netherlands: Daniel Johannes von Balluseck) 107 (34,818): 2. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
18. A. Heldring, ed. (March 9, 1936). "Toernooi Te Menton" [Menton tournament] (pdf). Algemeen Handelsblad (in Dutch) (Amsterdam, Netherlands: Daniel Johannes von Balluseck) 109 (35,595): 18. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
19. W.G.N. De Keizer, ed. (January 18, 1937). "Kho Slaat Landau" [Kho beats Landau] (pdf). Het Nieuws Van den Dag (in Dutch) (Amsterdam, Netherlands: W. A. Van Goudoever) 42 (13): 27. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
20. Alexis Brézet, ed. (January 3, 1937). "Le Tournoi du Beau-Site de Cannes" [The Beau-Site de Cannes tournament]. Le Figaro (in French) (Paris, France: Dassault Group). ISSN 0182-5852. Retrieved November 14, 2012.
21. Alexis Brézet, ed. (February 7, 1937). "Le tournoi de Carlton á Cannes" [The Cannes-Carlton tournament]. Le Figaro (in French) (Paris, France: Dassault Group). ISSN 0182-5852. Retrieved November 14, 2012.
22. Alexis Brézet, ed. (September 7, 1937). "Le tournoi de Menton" [The Menton tournament]. Le Figaro (in French) (Paris, France: Dassault Group). ISSN 0182-5852. Retrieved November 14, 2012.
23. "Four Before Court". The Advertiser (Adelaide, Australia: The Herald and Weekly Times) 89 (27,617): 1. April 12, 1947. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
24. ""Prince Niki" named as Currency Racketeer". The Advertiser (Adelaide, Australia: The Herald and Weekly Times) 89 (27,620): 1. April 16, 1947. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
25. "Paris blackmarketeer had turnover of £126,000 monthly" (pdf). The Canberra Times (Canberra, Australia: Federal Capital Press of Australia) 21 (6,243): 1. April 14, 1947. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
26. "' Palestine Max' Affair Ends Luxury Trips, To France; Near Panic". The Barrier miner (Broken Hill, Australia: Henry Fenton) LX (17,611): 1. April 15, 1947. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
27. Daviscup.com. "Patrick Landau profile". London, Great Britain: International Tennis Federation. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
28. Catherine Werblovsky Olympieff (August 19, 2007). "Petersen Family History". Provo, Utah, United States: Ancestry.com. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
29. Tyler Steele. "Patrick Landau". Provo, Utah, United States: BYU Cougars. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
30. "Ante la eliminatoria de la Copa de Galea de tenis, zona española, en S'Agaró" [The tie of the Galea Cup, Spanish zone in S'Agaró]. La Vanguardia (in Spanish) (Barcelona, Spain: Carlos Godó Valls): 32. July 23, 1960. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
31. Tyler Steele. "Zdravko Mincek". Provo, Utah, United States: BYU Cougars. Retrieved November 15, 2012."
3. Manuscript in possession of Michael Landau of Monte Carlo as of 18 Sep 2023. Family history memories of Alice Landau also known as “Nikitina,” who was the sister of Vladimir Landau and the daughter of Anna Herzenberg. Translation is from French from two handwritten pages on one sheet of paper. Patrick Landau, Nikitina’s nephew, had asked her to write down what she recalled of the family history and descendants. The description is written after January 1970 because she writes that Constantin-Pierre died in January 1970. Editorial comments are [bracketed].
“[Page 1] My father’s side:
The father of my father was called Adolphe and he was born I think at Czenstohova (Poland) in 1830; he married around 1953 [misstated for 1853] my grandmother, who was named Régine. They had 4 sons and one daughter. The eldest son (1855) was Julien (Julian) born in Czenstohova who married Fanny Schaskolski, born in Riga in 1863 [handwriting garbled, may be 1865]. They had 2 sons: The youngest one Constantin-Pierre, born in Petersburg in 1893, married in 1912 with Miss Banzer had a son Youri (George) born in 1914 who is married and lives in Toulouse [France]. He had 2 sons. Constantin-Pierre remarried to Miss Tronsevitch and again another time [his third]. He died in Belgium in January 1970. The first son of Julien, Theodor was born in 1890. He married a woman from Vienna in 1943 and had a daughter. Theodor died in 1965. The second son of Adolph, Gustave was born in Czenstohova and went to the USA before the war in
1914. He had 7 sons and one daughter. I know 3 sons: Adam was born in Warsaw in 1892, Rom[?] born in Warsaw in 1894 and Walter born in New York in 1906. I don’t know the others. The third son, my father Maximilian was born April 1st 1870 in Czenstohova and died in Odessa in 1919 (added in between lines). He married Anne Herzenberg in 1899, born in 1978 [miswritten, 1878] in Moscow and had a daughter Alice-Régine [Nikitina] born in 1900 February 21st and Vladimir born in 1902 March 29 both in St. Petersburg. Vladimir, your father, married in 1945 with Miss Janine Regnard born in 1916 in Paris and you were born at Boulogne s/Seine [Boulogne-sur-Seine] September 5, 1945. The 4th son of Adolph – Stanislas was born in 1876 at Lodz. He was married to Miss Lidia ? and had 3 sons: John born in 1905, Bronislav born in 1907 and Anton born in 1914. Stanislas and Lidia were killed in Poland. Their sons were living in France.
The daughter of Adolph: Evelyn was born in 1878 at Lodz (Poland) and married a Russian general Avinovitzki in 1903. Both are dead, I don’t know where or when.
The only living parent [relative] that I know of is Nicolas Landau, antiquary in Paris who is the son of my father’s cousin. He is 80 years old and I think he can give more information on the Landau family!
My mother’s side:
The father of my mother was named Edouard Herzenberg. He was born around 1845 and died in 1910 in Moscow. He was married, but I think the name of my grandmother was Herzenberg too. She died in 1904 in Moscow. They had 7 daughters and 2 sons:
1) Sophie, the eldest born in 1863, married had 2 daughters Marie and Nadia. Nadia is dead and Marie lives in Moscow. She is married and has a married daughter, who has a daughter.
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2nd daughter Elizabeth born in 1865 in Moscow, married Adolph Werblovsky and had a daughter Catherine who married in 1913 Victor Buzkoy who died in England in 1945. Their son Arik was born in St. Petersburg in 1914, he is married to Julie and has a son and a daughter and lives in Malta. Catherine lives in Nice. Elisabeth died in Nice in 1950 and Adolph in 1938.
3rd daughter Hélène born in 1867 Moscow, married Ossip Offenbacher and had a son Lothar born in 1896. Hélène died in 1919 in Berlin and Ossip later. Lothar disappeared in Germany.
4th daughter Egenie [Eugenia] married Leon Taube from Riga and was born in 1876 in Moscow and died in 1930 in Moscow. No children.
5th daughter Lilia: born in 1877, died in 1897 in Davos.
6th daughter Anne: my mother born in 1878 married Maximillian Landau in 1898 and had 2 children Alice born on Feb. 21, 1900, and Vladimir March 29, 1902. Maximillian Landau died in Odessa in 1919 (January) and Anne died in 1961 in Monte-Carlo.
7th daughter Antoinette: born in 1885 and died in 1905.
1st son Ivan: born in 1870 married Lidia (French) in 1898 and had 3 children: Michel born in 1900, André born in 1901 and Susan born in 1903. Michel died in 1935, André lives in Moscow. Susan lives in Menton. Ivan died in Siberia in 1930 and Lidia too. André had a son and Susan married a Volant, a daughter Lidia married in Canada to an Austrian man. She has a son and daughter.
2nd son Paul: born in 1872 married to Natalie, one daughter. Lives in Moscow.”
BURIAL:
1. Burial crypt in Monaco city cemetery viewed 15 May 2010:
-Anne Landau, nee a Moscou 1877. Decedee a Monaco 1962.
-Vladimir Landau, St. Petersbourg 29-3-1902, Hanovre 24-9-1971, Champion de Tennis de Monaco.
-Alice Landau - Nikitina, Petrograd 21-2-1900, Monaco 8-6-1978, Danseuse Etoile des Ballets Russes de Diaghilev.
-Patrick Landau, 5-9-1945, 3-10-2007, Champion de Tennis de Monaco.
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Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy
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