Boris A. Khesin Informal complexification and Poisson structures on moduli spaces (AMS Transl., Ser. 2, vol. 180 (1997), pp. 147--155). We show how the Cauchy (or, more generally, the Leray) residue formula can be understood as an informal complex analog of the Stokes formula. It allows one to treat the Poisson (and symplectic) structures on the moduli spaces of flat connections on real manifolds and those structures on the moduli spaces of holomorphic bundles on complex manifolds in a parallel way.\endabstract