Leonhard Schüller, a single stonemason (Maurer), arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a ship named Die Zwei Gebrüder (The Two Brothers) under the command of Skipper Nicolaus Peter Pinck.
Leonhardt Schüler [sic] is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Orlovskaya on 3 August 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 79 along with his new wife Katharina.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Leonhard Schüller came from the German region of Ansbach.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schüller family among the Volga German colonies.
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