“The New Almanac of Anecdotes of 1831” is a unique collection of all kinds of funny stories, published almost 200 years ago, a bibliographic rarity that reveals to the reader the world of laughter and fun from the perspective of a person of the 19th century. This collection proves that the “anecdote with a beard” and “a joke that everyone knows” are not at all the same thing. The ancient jokes contained here were laughed at in the age of Pushkin and Gogol, but they captivate the modern reader with their freshness, force them to look at their past and present in a new way, entertain and give a charge of gaiety for a long time. The reader will be interested to know that among the subscribers to This almanac of anecdotes includes such noble persons as the outstanding traveler Thaddeus Bellingshausen, the discoverer of Antarctica, and the Prince of Italy, Count Suvorov-Rymniksky, grandson of the outstanding Russian commander Alexander Suvorov.