Jean-Baptiste Landé

Jean-Baptiste Landé (died 26 February 1748) was a French ballet dancer, active in Sweden, Denmark and Russia.

[1] Landé was employed at the Polish royal court in Dresden when he was engaged by King Frederick I of Sweden in 1721.

He left Sweden in 1728, after a conflict with Charles Langlois (actor), who intruded on his theatre privilege by arranging his own plays at Bollhuset.

He educated the first dancers in Russia, which were taken from the staff at the royal palace: Timofei Bublikov, Nikolai Choglokov, Afanasy Toporkov, Ivan Shatilov, Nikolai Tolubeyev, Sergei Chalyshkin, Andrei Samarin and Andrei Nesterov, and among the females Yelizaveta, Avdotia Timofeyeva and Aksinya Sergeeva.

[3] [4] Landé was the dance instructor of Catherine the Great after her arrival in Russia in 1744.