Ruma kreivitär (Finnish: The Ugly Countess) is a 2002 historical novel by Finnish author Kaari Utrio telling a story of poor aristocrats and richening middle-class in the 1830s Finland.
Characters
Conrad Gyllenfalk, the last count of Bössa, an impoverished Earl Julia Gyllenfalk, Conrad's eldest daughter, "The Ugly Countess" Dorotea Gyllenfalk, Conrad's youngest daughter, a beauty Anton Wendel, a tobacco manufacturer Hanna Wendel, Anton's aunt Filip Adelheim, a baron and official in the government Eleonora, his wife the baroness Augusta Adelheim, a beautiful, rich and noble lady in her twenties Otto Adelheim, a young baron Anders Granlund, a saddler master and prosperous burgher Stina Granlund, Anders's wife Carolina Lohm, a rich heiress from Stina's first marriage Christina Tybelia, a dowager, wealthy, and relative to Julia's and Dorothea's late mother Vladimir Tybelius, a yet more distant relation, Tybelia's step-grandson The Honourable Thomas Stanley, a younger son of the Earl of Highminster from London Karl Kynberg, a foreman in Wendel's tobacco factory Orlando Vargas, a cigar master from North America (probably with Cuban roots) Cecily Underhill Vargas, his wife, a dressmaker, from New England Clas Johan von Numers, an elderly (retired) Captain Wenzel Lorenz, an elderly (retired) Lieutenant of the Finnish Navy ekipaasi (equipage)
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