Eugene Schuyler

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{{Infobox writer 
| name = Eugene Schuyler
| image = Photo of Eugene Schuyler, American Consul-General in Constantinople.jpg
| imagesize = 200 px
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| alma_mater = [[Yale College]]
| birth_date = {{birth date|1840|02|26}}
| birth_place = [[Ithaca, New York|Ithaca]], [[New York (state)|New York]], [[United States]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1890|7|16|1840|2|26}}
| death_place = [[Venice]], [[Italy]]
| occupation = [[Diplomat]], [[writer]], [[translation|translator]]
| nationality = [[United States|American]]
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'''Eugene Schuyler''' ([[Ithaca]], [[New York (state)|New York]], February 26, 1840 – [[Venice]], [[Italy]], July 16, 1890) was a nineteenth-century [[United States|American]] scholar, writer, explorer and diplomat. Schuyler was one of the first three Americans to earn a [[Ph.D.]] from an American university;<ref>See, for instance, {{Cite journal | last1 = Rosenberg | first1 = R. P. | title = Eugene Schuyler's Doctor of Philosophy Degree: A Theory Concerning the Dissertation | journal = The Journal of Higher Education | volume = 33 | issue = 7 | pages = 381–386 | doi = 10.2307/1979947 | year = 1962 | jstor = 1979947| pmid = | pmc = }}</ref> and the first American translator of [[Ivan Turgenev]] and [[Lev Tolstoi]]. He was the first American diplomat to visit Russian [[Central Asia]], and as American [[Consul General]] in [[Constantinople]] he played a key role in publicizing Turkish atrocities in Bulgaria in 1876 during the [[April Uprising]]. He was the first American [[Minister (diplomacy)|Minister]] to [[Romania]] and [[Serbia]], and U.S. Minister to [[Greece]].<ref>In that capacity he signed the first consular conventions with these countries as well as the first treaty of commerce and navigation with Serbia. See {{Citation |last= |first=|author-link= |year=1899 |editor-last= |editor-first= |contribution= Roumania, 1881, Consular Convention |title= 55th Congress, 3rd Session, House of Representatives, Document No. 276, Compilation of Treaties in Force, Prepared Under Act of July 7, 1898 |volume= |edition= |publisher= Government Printing Office |publication-date=1899 |publication-place= Washington, DC |pages= 523–527 |url= https://archive.org/stream/compilationtrea00statgoog#page/n534/mode/2up |accessdate=2013-02-03 }}. See also {{Citation |last= |first=|author-link= |year=1899 |editor-last= |editor-first= |contribution= Serbia, 1881, Convention of Commerce and Navigation |title= 55th Congress, 3rd Session, House of Representatives, Document No. 276, Compilation of Treaties in Force, Prepared Under Act of July 7, 1898 |volume= |edition= |publisher= Government Printing Office |publication-date=1899 |publication-place= Washington, DC |pages= 569–578 |url= https://archive.org/stream/compilationtrea00statgoog#page/n580/mode/2up |accessdate=2013-02-03 }}</ref>

== Youth and education ==
Eugene Schuyler was the son of [[George W. Schuyler]], a drugstore owner in [[Ithaca, New York]] who later was elected [[New York State Treasurer]]. His father's ancestors, of Dutch descent, included a general in [[George Washington]]'s army. His mother, Matilda Scribner, was half-sister of [[Charles Scribner I|Charles Scribner]], the founder of the famous American publishing house. At the age of fifteen Schuyler entered [[Yale University|Yale College]], where he studied languages, literature and philosophy.<ref name="Rosenberg"/> He graduated with honors in 1859 and was a member of [[Skull and Bones]].<ref name="psiupsilon">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iCN-AAAAIAAJ | title=The twelfth general catalogue of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity | accessdate=March 24, 2011 | year=1917}}</ref>{{rp|91}} He became one of the first graduate students at Yale, and in 1861, he and two other students were the first Americans to receive [[Ph.D.]]s from an American university.<ref name="Rosenberg">{{cite journal |last=Rosenberg |first=Ralph P. |title=The First American Doctor of Philosophy Degree: A Centennial Salute to Yale, 1861-1961 |date=1961 |journal=Journal of Higher Education |volume=32 |issue=7 |pages=387–394 |doi=10.2307/1978076 |jstor=1978076}}</ref> In 1860 Schuyler became an assistant to [[Noah Porter]], a prominent linguistician and literary figure, in the revision of ''Webster's Dictionary'', the first dictionary of American English. In 1862 Schuyler began to study law at [[Yale Law School]], and received his law degree in 1863 from [[Columbia Law School]]. He began practicing law in New York, but did not find it very interesting. Instead he began to write, becoming a contributor to ''[[The Nation]]'' magazine. He continued to write for ''The Nation'' until the end of his life.<ref>{{Citation |last=Schuyler |first= Eugene |author-link= |year= 1901 |editor-last= |editor-first= |contribution=|title= Italian Influences |volume= |edition= |publisher= Charles Scribner |publication-date= |publication-place= New York |pages= |url=https://archive.org/details/italianinfluence00schu#page/n8/mode/2up |accessdate=2013-03-08 }}.</ref>

== Translator of Turgenev and Diplomat to Russia ==
In September 1863 a Russian naval squadron made a long stay in New York harbor, hoping to escape capture by the [[British Navy]] in the event of a war between Britain and Russia over the [[January Uprising|Polish Uprising]] of 1863. Schuyler met some of the officers of the Russian flagship, the ''Alexander Nevsky'', which inspired him to study Russian. He learned Russian well enough to translate the novel of [[Ivan Turgenev]], ''Fathers and Sons'', which was published in 1867, the first translation of Turgenev to appear in the United States.<ref>{{Citation |last=Turgenef |first= Ivan |author-link= |year= 1867 |editor-last= |editor-first= |contribution=|title= Fathers and Sons, Translated from the Russian, with the approval of the author by Eugene Schuyler, Ph.D. |volume= |edition= |publisher= Leypoldt & Holt |publication-date= |publication-place= New York |pages= |url= https://archive.org/stream/fathersandsonsa00schugoog#page/n5/mode/2up |accessdate=2013-03-07 }}.</ref> The same year Schuyler studied [[Finnish language|Finnish]], and edited the first American translation of the Finnish national epic, ''[[Kalevala]]''. In 1864, Schuyler applied for a diplomatic post in the State Department. The State Department took three years to consider his application, and then offered him the position of consul in Moscow, then the second city of Russia. En route to his post, Schuyler stopped in [[Baden-Baden]] to meet Turgenev, who gave him a letter of introduction to [[Lev Tolstoi]]. Schuyler began his diplomatic tour in Moscow in August 1867.

In the spring of 1868 he made his first trip to the edge of Central Asia, traveling with a Russian merchant, [[Vasilii Alekseich]], by steamboat down the [[Volga]] to [[Samara, Russia|Samara]], then by carriage to [[Orenburg]], which at the time was the base for Russian military operations The Russians had occupied the Khanate of [[Bukhara]] in 1866 and were advancing toward [[Samarkand]]. In 1868, Schuyler was a guest of Tolstoi for a week at his estate at [[Yasnaya Polyana]], at the time when Tolstoi was finishing [[War and Peace]]. He helped Tolstoi rearrange his library, and went hunting with him. Tolstoi, who was interested in public education in the United States, asked Schuyler for copies of American primers and school textbooks. Schuyler received Tolstoi's permission to translate his novel [[The Cossacks]] into English. In 1869, the new Administration of President [[Ulysses Grant]] removed Schuyler from his post in Moscow and replaced him with a political appointee. Schuyler was able to obtain a post as consul to the Russian port of Reval (now [[Tallinn]]). In November, 1869, President Grant appointed a new Minister to Russia, [[Andrew Curtin]], a former Governor of Pennsylvania who knew nothing of Russia. Curtin was impressed by Schuyler and appointed him as the secretary of the American legation in [[St. Petersburg]], a post which Schuyler held until 1876.

== Travels in Central Asia ==
[[File:Map of the Khanates of Bukhara, Khiva, and Khokand and Part of Russian Turkistan.png|thumb|"Map of the Khanates of Bukhara, Khiva, and Khokand and Part of Russian Turkistan" by Eugene Schuyler, 1875.]]
Schuyler was able to combine his diplomatic duties with scholarship and travel. He began writing a major biography of [[Peter the Great]], and frequented the meetings of the Russian Geographic Society in St. Petersburg. In 1873, he was one of the first foreigners invited to visit Russia's new conquests in Central Asia.<ref name="WDL">{{cite web |url = http://www.wdl.org/en/item/7322/ |title = Map of the Khanates of Bukhara, Khiva, and Khokand and Part of Russian Turkistan |website = [[World Digital Library]] |year = 1875 |accessdate = 2013-06-20 }}</ref>

Schuyler left St. Petersburg by train on March 23, 1873 and traveled first to Saratov. He was accompanied by an American journalist, [[Januarius MacGahan]], who was working for the New York Herald. Schuyler and MacGahan traveled from [[Saratov]] by sledge to [[Orenburg]], then to Kazala (now [[Kazalinsk]]), then to Fort Perovskii (now [[Kzyl-Orda]]). MacGahan went from there to find the Russian Army at [[Khiva]], while Schuyler travelled on to [[Tashkent]], in present-day [[Uzbekistan]], [[Samarkand]], [[Bukhara]] and [[Kokand]]. He returned to St. Petersburg via Siberia and the Urals. His trip had taken eight months<ref name="WDL"/> (he had told the State Department he would be gone only three months), but he brought back a wealth of geographical information.

Schuyler wrote extensively about his trip for the [[National Geographic Society]] in the United States, and he also wrote a long report for the State Department.<ref name="WDL"/><ref>{{cite book|last=United States Department of State |first= |contribution= Mr. Schuyler's Report on Central Asia |title= Foreign Relations of the United States / Executive Documents Printed by Order of the House of Representatives. 1874-1875|url=http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/FRUS/FRUS-idx?type=turn&entity=FRUS.FRUS187475.p0912&id=FRUS.FRUS187475&isize=M|publisher=|place=London |year=|edition=|volume= |page=816 |access-date=9 June 2016 | via= Digital Collections of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Library}}</ref> He was embarrassed when his confidential report was published in December 1876 in ''Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States - 1874'', and translated into Russian by the St. Petersburg press. His report had been critical of the treatment of the Tatars by the Russian General [[Konstantin Petrovich Von Kaufman]]. A Russian journalist responded, "it did not lie in the mouth of an American statesman to say evil things of the Russian treatment of Tatars - he ought to look at home, and criticize the policy of his own countrymen toward the North American Indians." (1)

With the exception of the treatment of the Tatars, Schuyler was favorable toward the Russian presence in Central Asia. "On the whole, the Russian influence is beneficial in Central Asia," he wrote, "not only for the inhabitants, but to the world, and it certainly is greatly to our interest that a counterpoise should exist there against the extension of English domination in Asia. Having once taken possession of the country, it will be almost impossible for the Russians, with any fairness to the natives, to withdraw from it.." (2)

Schuyler wrote a two-volume book about his travels in Central Asia. The book, ''Turkestan,'' was published in October 1876, in both the United States and England.<ref>{{Citation |last=Schuyler |first= Eugene |author-link= |year= 1876 |editor-last= |editor-first= |contribution=|title= Turkistan, Notes of a Journey in Russian Turkistan, Khokand, Bukhara, and Kuldja |volume= I |edition= |publisher= Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington |publication-date= |publication-place= London |pages= |url= https://archive.org/stream/turkistannotesa03schugoog#page/n9/mode/2up |accessdate=2013-03-08 }}; {{Citation |last=Schuyler |first= Eugene |author-link= |year= 1877 |editor-last= |editor-first= |contribution=|title= Turkistan, Notes of a Journey in Russian Turkistan, Khokand, Bukhara, and Kuldja |volume= II |edition= |publisher= Scribner, Armstrong & Co. |publication-date= |publication-place= New York |pages= |url= https://archive.org/stream/turkistannotes02schu#page/n7/mode/2up |accessdate=2013-03-08 }}</ref> Like his report to the State Department, it was favorable to Russia's role in Central Asia: "Notwithstanding the many faults which may be found in the administration of the country, the Russian rule is on the whole beneficial to the natives, and it would be manifestly injust to them to withdraw her protection and leave them to anarchy and to the unbridled rule of fanatical despots." (3)

== Schuyler and the Investigation of Turkish Atrocities in Bulgaria ==
Schuyler left Russia in 1876. He tried unsuccessfully to be named Minister to Turkey, but that position went to a political appointee of the Grant administration. and he was given the position once more of the secretary of the legation, and also of consul general.

He arrived in Constantinople on July 6, 1876. Two months before, an [[April uprising|uprising]] against Turkish rule had taken place in [[Bulgaria]]. The uprising had been repressed by force by the Ottoman Army, with the [[massacre]] of civilians. Schuyler learned of these massacres from the [[Bulgarians|Bulgarian]] students and faculty of [[Robert College]] in Constantinople.<ref>{{Cite book |last= Washburn|first=George |year=1909 |title=Fifty Years in Constantinople and Recollections of Robert College |publisher=Houghton Mufflin Company |place=Boston & New York |edition= 1 |pages= 109–110|url=https://archive.org/stream/fiftyyearsincons00wash#page/108/mode/2up|accessdate=7 June 2016|via= Internet Archive}}</ref>

Vague reports of the massacres had first been printed in the British press on May 6. American Faculty members from Robert College collected more information and sent them to the British Minister to Turkey, with no result. They then sent the reports to the correspondents of [[The Times]] and the [[The Daily News (UK)|London Daily News]]. The London Daily News published its account on June 23, 1876.<ref>{{Cite book |last= Pears |first=Edwin |year=1911 |title=Turkey and Its People |publisher=Methuen & Co. Ltd. |place=London |edition= 1 |page=210 |url=https://archive.org/stream/turkeyitspeople00pearuoft#page/210/mode/2up |accessdate=2 June 2016}} via Internet Archive</ref><ref>{{cite book|editor=Frederick Moy Thomas |title=Fifty Years of Fleet Street being the Life and Letters of John Richard Robinson |url=https://archive.org/stream/fiftyyearsofflee00thomiala#page/182/mode/2up|year=1904|publisher=Macmillan |place=London |edition=1 |pages= 183–186 |access-date= 5 June 2016| via=Internet Archive}}</ref> It caused an immediate sensation in London. The Bulgarian atrocities were discussed in Parliament on June 26, and the opposition Liberal Party demanded a full investigation. The Conservative government of Prime Minister [[Benjamin Disraeli]] agreed to investigate the reports.

The British Government appointed a second secretary at their embassy in Constantinople, Walter Baring, to conduct the investigation. Fearing a cover-up, the faculty members of Robert College asked the American Minister to Turkey, [[Horace Maynard]], to conduct his own investigation. Maynard gave the task to Schuyler.

Schuyler prepared to travel to Bulgaria to investigate the reports. By chance, Schuyler's friend from Russia, [[Januarius MacGahan]], arrived in Constantnople to cover the [[Serbo-Turkish War (1876–78)|Serbia-Turkish War]]. Schuyler invited MacGahan to accompany him on his journey to Bulgaria. Schuyler and MacGahan left for Bulgaria on July 23.<ref>{{cite book|editor=Frederick Moy Thomas |title=Fifty Years of Fleet Street being the Life and Letters of John Richard Robinson |url=https://archive.org/stream/fiftyyearsofflee00thomiala#page/184/mode/2up|year=1904|publisher=Macmillan |place=London |edition=1 |pages= 185–186 |access-date= 5 June 2016| via=Internet Archive}}</ref> They were joined by a correspondent of Kölnische Zeitung [[Germans|German]] journalist Karl Schneider (1854–1945) and by a second secretary of the Russian Embassy in Constantinople [[Georgia (country)|Georgian]] prince Aleksi Tsereteli (Aleksei Tseretelev) and Turkish and Bulgarian translator Petar Dimitrov, instructor at the American Robert College in Constantinople.<ref>[https://books.google.bg/books?id=WZweAIJI0ZwC&pg=PA106&lpg=PA106&dq=Karl+Schneider++K%C3%B6lnische+Zeitung+1876&source=bl&ots=REnFolck_r&sig=Bg2cqvlXBEdGtnlYia19sZ0u5Tc&hl=bg&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi5j72A6sjPAhXHthQKHRL4DKwQ6AEIJzAB#v=onepage&q=Karl%20Schneider%20%20K%C3%B6lnische%20Zeitung%201876&f=false Maria Todorova,Imagining the Balkans, p. 106, Oxford University Press 2009]</ref> They spent three weeks documenting the atrocities which had taken place at villages in southern Bulgaria three months earlier. After visiting a number of towns and villages, Schuyler stated in his report to the U.S. Minister to Turkey, Horace Maynard: " It is very difficult to estimate the number of Bulgarians who were killed during the few days that the disturbances lasted, but I am inclined to put 15,000 for the districts that I have named." <ref>Mr. Schuyler's Preliminary Report on the Moslem Atrocities, published with the letters by Januarius MacGahan. See {{cite book|last=MacGahan|first= Januarius A.|title= Turkish Atrocities in Bulgaria, Letters of the Special Commissioner of the "Daily News," J.A. MacGahan, Esq. |publisher=Bradbury Agnew and Co. |location= London |year= 1876|chapter= |url=https://archive.org/details/MacGahanTurkishAtrocitiesInBulgaria |pages= |accessdate=28 September 2013}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=24365|date=19 September 1876 |startpage=5142|accessdate=21 June 2016}}</ref>

Schuyler gave a vivid account of what he saw at the village of [[Batak, Bulgaria|Batak]], three months after the [[Batak massacre|massacres]] had taken place:
<blockquote>
"...On every side were human bones, skulls, ribs, and even complete skeletons, heads of girls still adorned with braids of long hair, bones of children, skeletons still encased in clothing. Here was a house the floor of which was white with the ashes and charred bones of thirty persons burned alive there. Here was the spot where the village notable Trandafil was spitted on a pike and then roasted, and where he is now buried; there was a foul hole full of decomposing bodies; here a mill dam filled with swollen corpses; here the school house, where 200 women and children had taken refuge there were burned alive, and here the church and churchyard, where fully a thousand half-decayed forms were still to be seen, filling the enclosure in a heap several feet high, arms, feet, and heads protruding from the stones which had vainly been thrown there to hide them, and poisoning all the air.

"Since my visit, by orders of the Mutessarif, the [[Kaymakam|Kaimakam]] of [[Pazardzhik|Tatar Bazardjik]] was sent to Batak, with some lime to aid in the decomposition of the bodies, and to prevent a pestilence.

"Ahmed Aga, who commanded at the massacre, has been decorated and promoted to the rank of Yuz-bashi..." <ref>''Mr. Schuyler's Report''. See {{cite book|last=MacGahan|first= Januarius A.|title= Turkish Atrocities in Bulgaria, Letters of the Special Commissioner of the "Daily News," J.A. MacGahan, Esq. |publisher=Bradbury Agnew and Co. |location= London |year= 1876|chapter= |url=https://archive.org/details/MacGahanTurkishAtrocitiesInBulgaria |pages= 93 |accessdate=28 September 2013}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=24365|date=19 September 1876 |startpage=5143|accessdate=20 July 2016}}</ref>
</blockquote>

Schuyler's official report, and MacGahan's newspaper reporting, combined to cause a sensation in the British press.<ref>{{cite book|last=Barnwell|first=R.Grant |title=The Russo-Turkish War: comprising an account of the Servian Insurrection, the dreadful massacre of Christians in Bulgaria and other Turkish atrocities, with the transactions and negotiations of the contending powers preliminary to the present struggle, the military resources and defences of the combatants, and the stirring battles and thrilling incidents of the war; together with a history and description of Russia and the Russians, the rise, progress and decline of the Ottoman Empire and sketches of the people, manners and customs and domestic life of both nations. |publisher=John E. Potter & Company |location= Philadelphia |year= 1877|chapter= |url=https://archive.org/stream/russoturkishwarc00barnuoft#page/398/mode/2up |pages= 398 |accessdate=28 July 2016|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> The Government of [[Benjamin Disraeli]] tried to minimize the massacres, saying that the Bulgarians were equally responsible, but these claims were refuted by Schuyler and MacGahan's eyewitness reports.<ref>{{cite book|first=William Ewart |last= Gladstone|title=Bulgarian Horrors and the Question of the East|url=https://archive.org/details/bulgarianhorrors00gladiala|year=1876|pages=18–19|edition=1 |access-date= 29 March 2016 |place=London|publisher=John Murray|via= Internet Archive}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last= Pears |first=Edwin |year=1911 |title=Turkey and Its People |publisher=Methuen & Co. Ltd. |place=London |edition= 1 |pages=212–214 |url=https://archive.org/stream/turkeyitspeople00pearuoft#page/214/mode/2up |via= Internet Archive |accessdate=31 May 2016}}</ref> When Russia threatened war against Turkey, Britain told the Turkish government that, because of the state of public opinion, it could not take the side of Turkey.<ref>See the Introduction to the {{cite book|last=MacGahan|first= Januarius A.|title= Turkish Atrocities in Bulgaria, Letters of the Special Commissioner of the "Daily News," J.A. MacGahan, Esq. |publisher=Bradbury Agnew and Co. |location= London |year= 1876|chapter= |url=https://archive.org/details/MacGahanTurkishAtrocitiesInBulgaria |pages= |accessdate=25 September 2013}}, for an account of the reaction by the British government and Parliament.</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last= Pears |first=Edwin |year=1911 |title=Turkey and Its People |publisher=Methuen & Co. Ltd. |place=London |edition= 1 |pages=212–214 |url=https://archive.org/stream/turkeyitspeople00pearuoft#page/214/mode/2up |accessdate=31 May 2016}} via Internet Archive</ref>

The Russian Government, moved by Pan-Slavic sentiment and a desire to help the Orthodox Christian Bulgarians, declared war on the Ottoman Empire and invaded Bulgaria in 1877. The Turkish Army was defeated and [[Liberation of Bulgaria|Bulgaria was liberated]] from Ottoman rule in 1878.<ref>{{citation |last=Schuyler|first= Eugene|contribution= United Bulgaria|title=The North American Review|volume=141 |issue=348 |date= November 1885 |pages=464-474 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/25118547 |via=JSTOR |accessdate=February 4, 2017}}</ref>

== Dismissal from Turkey; Diplomat to Rome, Romania, Serbia and Greece ==
Schuyler's role in the liberation of Bulgaria greatly displeased the Ottoman Government, which protested to the U.S. Government. Secretary of State [[Hamilton Fish]] was also displeased with Schuyler, since Schuyler had acted without his knowledge or consent. He discussed withdrawing Schuyler from Turkey, but decided against it, since he did not want to appear to be unsympathetic to the Bulgarians. When a new President, [[Rutherford Hayes]], took office, Schuyler was subjected to more attacks in the press, accused of bias toward the Bulgarians. On January 3, 1878, the Turkish Government demanded his recall: "The Porte regarded a continuance of Mr. Schuyler as consul-general at Constantinople as a serious injury to Turkey in its diplomatic relations and in the administration of its affairs in the provinces." On May 29, 1878, a State Department investigation of Schuyler found that "His sentiments and sympathies are strongly anti-Turkish" and that he "aided greatly to alienate British sympathy from Turkey in her struggle with Russia," and reprimanded him for his "unauthorized and self-imposed mission to Bulgaria." (4)

Schuyler was removed from Turkey and given the post of consul in [[Birmingham]], England. While there he finished his translation of Tolstoi's ''The Cossacks'', which was published in 1878.<ref>{{Citation |last=Tolstoy |first= Count Leo |author-link= |year= 1878 |editor-last= |editor-first= |contribution=|title= The Cossacks, A Tale of the Caucasus in 1852, translated from the Russian by Eugene Schuyler |volume= I |edition= |publisher= Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington |publication-date= |publication-place= London |pages= |url= https://archive.org/stream/cossackstrbyesc00tolsgoog#page/n6/mode/2up |accessdate=2013-03-07 }}; [https://archive.org/stream/cossackstrbyesc01tolsgoog#page/n8/mode/2up vol. II].</ref> In August 1879, Schuyler became consul general in [[Rome]], where he completed writing his book on Peter the Great,<ref>{{cite journal|title=Review of ''Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia: A Study of Historical Biography'' by Eugene Schuyler|journal=The Quarterly Review|date=July 1884|volume=158|pages=105–134|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039439297;view=1up;seq=117}}</ref> and began a new book on [[Catherine the Great]].<ref>{{Citation |last=Schuyler |first= Eugene |author-link= |year= 1884 |editor-last= |editor-first= |contribution=|title= Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia, A Study of Historical Biography |volume= I |edition= |publisher= Charles Scribner's Sons |publication-date= |publication-place= New York |pages= |url= https://archive.org/stream/petergreatemper06schugoog#page/n10/mode/2up |accessdate=2013-03-08 }}; {{Citation |last=Schuyler |first= Eugene |author-link= |year= 1884 |editor-last= |editor-first= |contribution=|title= Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia, A Study of Historical Biography |volume= II |edition= |publisher= Charles Scribner's Sons |publication-date= |publication-place= New York |pages= |url= https://archive.org/stream/petergreatemper02schu#page/n7/mode/2up |accessdate=2013-03-08 }}</ref> A year later, he became Chargé d'affaires in [[Bucharest]], as the United States prepared to recognize the independence of [[Romania]] and [[Serbia]]. In Romania, he studied Romanian and became a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy of Sciences. In July 1882, he was appointed the first American Minister to Rumania and Serbia and to Greece, resident in Athens. In July 1884, he was out of a job again when the Congress, as an economy measure, abolished the post of minister to Greece, Romania and Serbia.

Schuyler left the diplomatic service to lecture at [[Johns Hopkins]] and [[Cornell University]] on diplomatic practice and the conduct of American diplomacy. His book ''American Diplomacy and the Furtherance of Commerce'' was published by Scribner's in 1886.<ref>{{Citation |last=Schuyler |first= Eugene |author-link= |year= 1886 |editor-last= |editor-first= |contribution=|title= American Diplomacy and the Furtherance of Commerce|volume= |edition= |publisher= Scribner |publication-date= 1886 |publication-place= New York |pages= |url= https://archive.org/details/americandiplomac00schuuoft |accessdate=2013-02-03 }}.</ref> In 1889, the Administration of President [[Benjamin Harrison]] nominated him as First Assistant Secretary of State. The nomination was withdrawn, however, after opposition within the [[Senate Foreign Relations Committee]]. Instead, Schuyler took the post of diplomatic agent and consul general in [[Cairo]], Egypt. While in Egypt, he contracted malaria, and died in Venice on July 16, 1890, at the age of fifty. Between the many curious things Schuyler found in [[Russian Turkestan]] is worth mentioning the figure of the [[iskatchi]] as it is/was frequent in Wales, (Great Britain), the person sprinkling salt and bread over a corpse at a funeral and eating later such bread to clean the deceased man of his sins, sometimes for a fee.

==Honors==

[[Mount Schuyler]] on [[Graham Land]] in [[Antarctica]] is named after Eugene Schuyler. Streets in the Bulgarian cities of [[Sofia, Bulgaria|Sofia]], [[Plovdiv]], [[Varna]] and [[Panagyurishte]] are named after him.

[[File:Eugene Schuyler street in Panagyurishte, Bulgaria.jpg|thumb| A view of the street named after Eugene Schuyler in [[Panagyurishte]], [[Bulgaria]] ({{coord|42|29.840|N|24|11.469|E|region:BG_type:landmark}})]]

[[File:Eugene Schuyler Street in Sofia, Bulgaria.JPG|thumb|A view of the Street named after Eugene Schuyler in [[Sofia, Bulgaria]] ({{coord|42|42.571|N|23|20.953|E|region:BG_type:landmark}})]]

== Citations and Sources ==
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== Bibliography ==

* Frank G. Siscoe, "Eugene Schuyler, General Kaufman, and Central Asia, "Slavic Review," March 1968, pp. 119–124
* [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/FRUS/FRUS-idx?type=article&did=FRUS.FRUS187374v02.i0010&id=FRUS.FRUS187374v02&isize=M ''Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States. 1874'', pp. 765–831.]
* ''Turkestan, Notes of a Journey in Russian Turkistan, Kokand, Bukarha and Kuldja'', London and New York, 1876, two volumes. Reprinted in an abridged version in 1966. [https://books.google.com/books?id=oLha94KeTscC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false VOL. I] [https://books.google.com/books?id=6vXcGyEI-VcC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false VOL. II]
* Howard J. Kerner, ''Turco-American Diplomatic Relations'', 1860-1880. Ph.D. Dissertation, Georgetown University, 1948. pp. 332–333.
* {{cite book|last= |first= |editor= Dumas Malone|title=Dictionary of American Biography |publisher= Charles Scribner's Sons |location=New York |volume=16 (Robert-Seward) |year=1935 |chapter= Schuyler, Eugene|url=https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofamer16amer#page/470/mode/2up|pages=471–472 |accessdate=2 August 2016|via= Internet Archive }}
* {{Citation |last=Schuyler |first= Eugene |author-link= |year= 1901 |editor-last= |editor-first= |contribution=|title= Selected Essays, with a Memoir by Evelyn Schuyler |volume= |edition= |publisher= Scribner |publication-date= 1901 |publication-place= New York |pages= |url= https://archive.org/stream/selectedessayswi00schu#page/n7/mode/2up |accessdate=2013-02-12 }}
* Marin Pundeff, ''Schuyler and MacGahan Before 1876'', from ''Bulgaria in American Perspective - Political and Cultural Issues''. East European Monographs, Boulder, distributed by Columbia University Press, New York. 1994.
* Patricia Herlihy, "Eugene Schuyler and the Bulgarian Constitution of 1876," in ''Russia, Europe, and the Rule of Law,'' ed. Ferdinand Feldbrugge (Leiden & Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2007), 165-184.
* {{Cite book |last= Страшимиров |first=Димитър Т.|year=1907 |title= История на априлското въстание |publisher= Издание и собственост на Пловдивската Окръжна Постоянна Комисия |place=Пловдив |edition= 1 |pages= 360–367 |volume= III |url=https://archive.org/stream/istoriianaapril03stragoog#page/n387/mode/2up |accessdate=8 July 2016 |via=Internet Archive}}
* {{Cite book |last= |first=|year=1967 |chapter= Скайлер, Юджин (Schuyler, Eugene)|title= Кратка българска енциклопедия |publisher= Българска академия на науките |place=София |edition= 1 |page= 540 |volume= IV |url=|via=}}

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* [http://www.logoi.com/notes/american_in_turkistan.html A Review of Schuyler's book Turkistan]
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Eugene Schuyler}}

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