Continued Myopia in Nabokov

"Some of the pranksters were much younger tan the King, but this did not matter since his pictures in the huts of mountain folks and in the myopic shops of hamlets, where you could buy worms, ginger bread and zhiletka blades, had not aged since his coronation." (99)

Hmmm....Nabokov seems to be very familiar with this word and it's meaning. I must keep track.