In 1879, Land and Liberty split into two factions. One faction (the "villagers") supported continued agitation and propaganda in the countryside, the other faction (the "politicals") supported adopting more direct methods: terrorism. Bogdanovich supported the latter position and when Land and Liberty broke in two, he joined the resulting splinter organization, the
People's Will (Narodnaya Volya). In 1880 Bogdanovich became a member of the executive committee of the People's Will and was an
active participant in organizing the assassination of
Tsar Alexander II on March 1, 1881. Under his of Kobozeva, Bogdanovich had opened a cheese shop on
Malaya Sadovaya Street in St. Petersburg, from which a tunnel was dug to the middle of the street for laying mines. On the day before the assassination (February 28) the shop was raided, but the tunnel was not discovered. The tunnel was not used in the March 1 assassination and Bogdanovich escaped the ensuing dragnet. Bogdanovich worked to help recover the People's Will from its ideological and organizational crisis that followed the assassination. He was active in the
Red Cross of the People's Will, a prisoner relief organization, and helped organize escapes as well as legal appeals for the release of prisoners. In 1881, Bogdanovich went to
Siberia to prepare the
Krasnoyarsk -
Kazan section of the route for escaping prisoners and exiles. For a while he was hidden by
Nadezhda Golovina while preparing the escape of
Sophia Bardeen. ==Arrest, trial, and death==