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Ruma kreivitär

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Ruma kreivitär
AuthorKaari Utrio
LanguageFinnish
SubjectHelsinki in the 19th century, love
GenreHistorical fiction
PublisherTammi
Publication date
2002
Publication placeFinland
Media typePrint (hardback, pocket book), audiobook[1]
Pages362 pp
ISBN951-31-2537-8
OCLC52668363

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.[2][3]

Characters

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  • 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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