Voronezh State University
Bennett grew up in London, the eldest daughter of the flute player William Bennett and the cellist Rhuna Martin, and read Russian and French at the University of Oxford. She also studied Russian at Voronezh State University in the former Soviet Union and at "Le Centre d'Études Russes du Potager du Dauphin", a centre established by White Russian emigres outside Paris, at Meudon.