The article presents a systematic analysis of the dynamics of B.L. Pasternak’s poetry perception in literary studies over a century. Key receptive paradigms were identified: early assessments (1910s-1920s); ideological alienation (1930s-1950s); “second discovery” (late 1950s - 1960s); structuralist approaches (1960s - 1980s); modern pluralism with the predominance of intertextual, cultural-historical, and archival-biographical methods. The history of Pasternak studies has been considered as a model of the evolution of Russian literary studies in the 20th-21st centuries.