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'Ruma kreivitr' (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 Bssa, 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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