 In 1874 in Saint Petersburg he formed an underground circle of Mikhail Bakunin's followers and for a while propagated the idea of storming the Winter Palace and assassinating the Tzar family.In 1875 he had to leave the country and spent some time abroad so as to avoid the arrest.In the late 1870s Kablitz drifted towards the political center, became a member of the narodnik movement and started writing political and economical essays, mostly for "Slovo" and "Nedelya".