The article explains the need to address the history of the First World War in the aspect of everyday life of civilians. The Author criticizes the representation of considered event in terms of only a diplomatic or military history. The importance of the history of everyday life for the understanding of the significance of global events for a particular country is represented by the example of two museum exhibitions: "Russia in the Great War" in the Martial Chamber of in Tsarskoye Selo and «Der Erste Weltkrieg 1914-1918», at the German Historical Museum (DHM) in Berlin .