Hermanis

Moving on from crime novels...
Zacharias and Rozalija were born in the latter part of the eighteenth century, and Hermanis, their first child, was born in 1893.  He was a quiet child who loved books and music, and, peaceful by nature, he found it difficult to comprehend the word enemy - all people, no matter their nationality or politics, were the same as far as he was concerned. However, war does not distinguish between the warmonger and the pacifist; it tramples on both of them as well as on everyone else in between.