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I'm still unsure about Boris Pasternak's place in my personal pantheon/snow shaker of Russian poets, but the movie Dr. Zhivago, with the young poet Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif) as protagonist, and Julie Christie as Lara, remains one of my all time favourites. Here's one of the Zhivago poems:

Winds

I have died. You live alone with woe.
Now stormwinds, keening and repining,
Rock house and pine trees to and fro --
Not tree by tree, but at one blow
All groves together intertwining
With the illimitable space.
Thus sailboats sheltered at their base
Are rocked by winds along a bay.
But not in senseless agitation
The stormwind rages day by day:
Alone of grief its lamentation
And for you its lullaby of desolation.