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never received the financial resources necessary for his company to organize large-scale coal production on the archipelago. The collapse of the Romanoff dynasty and tsarist regime in Russian buried all of Weymam’s hopes. In the course of half a year, the Bolshevik revolt had wiped out the weak Provisional Government. In December 1917, von Weymam sent a telegram to the Navy General Staff in which he stated that he would never recognize the Soviet authorities. In spite of this, his partner Edward Ullman made one last attempt in the name of the Russian Spitsbergen Company, in April 1918. The new Bolshevik government had inherited all the problems of the previous authorities, including the urgent need to provide the country with coal. Ullman made an application with his project to the High Economic Council. At this time, however, horrible civil war broke out and any co-operation now seemed impossible. Weymam carried on working in Christiania in 1919-1920 as a representative for Admiral Kolchak. The fall of Kolchak in early 1920 left him without hope. He became one of millions of emigres. After the First World War was finished, all sovereign rights to Spitsbergen were presented to Norway. With the help of Adolf Hoel, von Weymam decided to sell his company to the Norwegians. The negotiations lasted several years and came to an end by 1924. Following this transaction, von Weymam graduated from of the Geology department at the University of Christiania and worked for a time in Norwegian companies. At the beginning of the Second World War he emigrated to Canada in 1940. He died in British Columbia province in August 1975. 27