Haapalah

Reuven Grobshtein was murdered during the Armenian-Tatar uprisings (local Azerbaijani people, name given by the other locals).
This was the first significant event in Borys Grobshtein's life, which happened when he was 8 years old,
Although Reuven Grobshtein was not an Armenian, but a Jew, hired thugs took his life when they saw Reuven in the street.
Borys was told that a colleague of his father, an antisemite in the oil business, aligned with the mob and had Reuven killed.