Russian jokes

In general, an anecdote (from the Greek "Unpublished", he also "apocryphal") is an independent literary genre, and a comedy, as a comedy and tragedy, which in Russian is intertwined, as a result form the same thing - anecdote.
And a classic joke is usually short as life, tragedy, and then tragedianly comic, as life, but it is always truth (or part of the truth) in the last instance, captured what is called "in two words". Something and popular we have this miniature legend called "Anecdote", which it knows about life, compatriot and the native country is much more than intelligent dictionaries. And not only that an anecdote ensures in some kind of high education, it also gives the strength to accept the barnness of personal being, and also saves the time to get a goat in the hunt.
It is curious that nowhere in the world there is a joke in our transcription of this concept, because it must be assumed) and genre, in essence, fabulous, and Russia fabulous substance, like the philosophers" thing in themselves. After all, we even have a shaped tragedy like an ancient Greek "Fedry can transform into a funny farce, mixed on the blood. Won at Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, three sisters dream of seeing the "sky in diamonds" - of course, and the sausage did not have time to rise in price, as the Bolsheviks staged the "sky in diamonds" by these seizable romance, this unreleased idealists that our fabulous country is so rich