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
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* Novels by Kaari Utrio 2002 novels Novels set in the 1830s Tammi (company) books 21st-century Finnish novels Finnish historical novels {{2000s-hist-novel-stub