Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A watan Satumbar 1863 wani jirgin ruwa na jirgin ruwa na Rasha ya yi doguwar zama a tashar jiragen ruwa ta New York, yana fatan ya tsere daga kamawa da Rundunar Sojojin Ruwa na Burtaniya a yayin yakin da ke tsakanin Burtaniya da Rasha game da Tashin hankali na Poland
na shekara ta 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".