Kammala wannan jumla: A watan Satumbar 1863 wani jirgin ruwan sojan ruwa na Rasha ya yi dogon lokaci a tashar jiragen ruwa ta New York, yana fatan tserewa daga kamawa da Sojan Ruwa na Burtaniya a yayin yakin da ke tsakanin Burtaniya da Rasha a kan
Tashin hankali na Poland na 1863. Schuyler ya sadu da wasu daga cikin jami'an jirgin ruwa na Rasha, "Alexander Nevsky", wanda ya yi wahayi zuwa gare shi don nazarin Rasha. Ya koyi Rasha sosai don fassara littafin Ivan Turgenev, "Uba da 'Ya'ya", wanda aka buga a 1867, fassarar Turgenev ta farko da za ta bayyana a Amurka. A wannan shekarar Schuyler ya yi karatun Finnish, kuma ya shirya fassarar Amurka ta farko ta almara ta ƙasar Finnish, "Kalevala".