She was the author of novels, short stories and travelogues, wrote feature articles for Parisian newspapers and acted as anonymous editor of the letters between her friend Charlotte Diede and the scientist explorer Wilhelm von Humboldt.

Therese was born into the family of Baltic-German nobility, as a daughter of Heinrich Christian Gottfried von Struve (1772-1851) and his wife, Countess Sophie Elisabeth Wilhelmine Oexle von Friedenberg (1780–1837).

Born in Stuttgart, Therese was educated in Hamburg where her father served as Russian Minister-Resident.

As a young adult, she moved to Saint Petersburg, where she married the Russian Consul-General Robert Gabriel von Bacheracht (1798-1884).

Her other works include society novels such as Lydia (1884) and Weltglück (1885), and several volumes of travel writing.