Ruma kreivitär - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia

Ruma kreivitär (Finnish: The Ugly Countess) is a 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)

References

Ruma kreivitär Wikipedia

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