I am researching a woman architect Clotilde Brewster b.1874, d.1937 (upon marriage in 1904 her name became Feilding) who was commissioned to design house for the sister-in-law of her friend Countess Sophie de Benckendorff in Russia according to a letter she wrote in January 1904. This house also mentioned in the book The Rags of TIme: an autobiography of William Buchan, 1990 p. 225: “Mrs. Feilding was said to have been a highly talented architect. One of her projects was a splendid country house in Russia, with copper domes, for some branch of the Benckendorff family.”
Sophie Petrovna de Beckendorff née Shuvalov was the wife of Ambassador Alexander Benckendorff. She only had two sisters-in-law:
Princess Maria Sergueïevna Dolgorouki married to Paul Leopold Benckendorff (1853-1921) (brother of Alexander Benckendorff)
Countess Betsy Shuvalov died 1936 (née Elisaveta Vladimirovna, princess Baryatinskaya) married to Sophie’s brother Pavel Petrovich Shuvalov (1847-1902).
Does anyone know of country houses built from 1904 for the above two women? Any help would be extremely appreciated!
