The novel-montage “The Other Pasternak” is a bright and unusual story about the family life of the great Russian poet and Nobel laureate. Over the past twenty years, many books about Pasternak have been published. But nowhere are the details of his private life told so vividly and unexpectedly as in Kataeva’s new study, “The Other Pasternak.” “Botticelli’s” marriage with Evgenia Lurie, the crazy passion that connected Pasternak with Zinaida Neuhaus, late love with Olga Ivinskaya - the reader has a unique opportunity to learn about Pasternak’s personal life from a completely unexpected side. Paraphrasing Tolstoy, Kataeva says about her books: “In Anti-Akhmatova “I loved folk thought, and in “The Other Pasternak” I loved family thought.”