The will of the Crown was made known to him and--he obeyed.

Olga Platanova was cast aside but not forgotten.

He became the husband of an unloved, scrawny lady of diadems.

When the situation became more than he could bear he blew out his brains.
When Olga heard the news of his death she was not stricken by grief.

She cried out her joy to a now cloudless sky, for he had justified the great love that had been theirs and would be theirs to the end of time.
From a passive believer in the doctrines of her father and his circle she became at once their most impassioned exponent.