Robert Scotland Liddell (1885-1972) was a British reporter and photographer for ''

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'' newspaper, who covered the events on the Russian front during the

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

. Scotland Liddell arrived in

Petrograd Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

in the spring of 1915 and soon moved to

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

, where he served as a member of the Group of Polish Red Cross Volunteers with the Russian army. He also contributed articles to The Sphere as its special correspondent. Mr Liddell was also representing British media in Mesopotamia and Baku towards the end of World War One. He has written many articles about the political situation in the South Caucasus region between 1918 and 1920. He also interviewed several members of the Azerbaijani Democratic Republic (1918/20). One of his interesting interviews was conducted with the foreign minister of the Azerbaijani Democratic Republic, M.Y.Jafarov in 1919. The name of the article was First Muslim Republic: British interests.Anthony Cross. In the Land of the Romanovs: An Annotated Bibliography of First-hand English-language Accounts of the Russian Empire (1613-1917), Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2014. , p. 390

References

Books

* ''The Track of the War: With Special Notes by Albert De Keersmaecker''. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1915 * ''On the Russian front''. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & co., limited, 1916 * ''"Sestra": Sketches from the Russian Front''. Hodder and Stoughton, 1917 * ''Actions and Reactions in Russia''. Chapman & Hall, 1917, BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2008, , * ''Big brother Bob''. Simpkin, Marshall, 1923 * ''Fifty Thousand Miles of Sun''. Cassell and co., ltd., 1925 * ''The gilded sign''. 1927 * ''The key of content''. Cassell, 1928 * ''Moulded in sand''. McCutchan, 1930 British war correspondents Scottish photographers 1885 births 1972 deaths {{UK-journalist-stub