Ruma kreivitär

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Ruma kreivitär

Author	Kaari Utrio
Country	Finland
Language	Finnish
Subject	Helsinki in the 19th century, love
Genre	Historical fiction
Publisher	Tammi
Publication date	2002
Media type	Print (hardback, pocket book), audiobook[1]
Pages	362 pp
ISBN	951-31-2537-8
OCLC	52668363

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[]

• 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)

References[]

External links[]

• "Ruma kreivitär" (in Finnish). Tammi.

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