The First World War was for the new century a kind of a frontier that divided the world into "before" and "after". In the exposition of the Museum of Local Lore, the visitor can see unique objects related to the events of this war.
People who are interested in the history of Polotsk will like an exhibit such as the brochure "The Corner of the German Occupation". It was released in the summer of 1918 in the publishing house of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Red Army deputies.
The brochure describes the events in the occupied by the Kaiser troops of Polotsk in the period from February to June 1918. According to the author of the pamphlet, the German troops entered the city on the evening of February 25, 1918. Initially, the Germans intended to stay in the city for about two weeks, so they were mainly engaged in loading into wagons and in the removal of property from the intendant warehouses. German units and command took the buildings of the Cadet Corps, the best hotels of the city, as well as most of the administrative and private stone buildings in the city center. Since April 1918, the real power was completely concentrated in the hands of the Germans.