The datings of great-grandsons, grandsons, etc, pin down it and mean that Vasilei cannot been born much later than the year 1400. Vasilei Hlazyna could quite plausibly been born in the 1390s, for example.

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A touch of butterscotchlike diacetyl.

Cynicism is often contrasted with Timonism (cf. Shakespeare's Timon of Athens). Cynics saw what people could be & were angered by what they had become; Timonists felt humans were hopelessly stupid & uncaring by nature & so saw no hope for change.