An interesting document is stored in the National Historical Archives of Belarus today. It turns out that at the beginning of the 19th century, the House of Peter I was the only historical monument in Polotsk, as evidenced by the report of the Polotsk city police chief. On the 4th of November 1837, the vice-governor, who at that time served as the civil governor of Vitebsk himself, was sent the following report from Polotsk:
"Information about the ancient stone one-story house, in which the Emperor Peter I deigned to lodge ... on this house there is a stone inscription in Latin letters:" Anno 1692, menses octobie die 4 "". In his report the police chief noted that there was no more detailed information about this building, except that in 1837 the house belonged to the titular counselor Alexander Kamenkova, and also that “on the 6th of June 1837 the house itself was seriously damaged by fire, and the wooden house he erected the outhouse completely. "
From the report of the city police chief ...
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