Ruma kreivitär

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)