[1] Born on 12 July 1848 in the village of Trebeshovo, Kovno Governorate to a noble Lutheran family, Kablitz studied law at the Saint Vladimir University in Kiev in 1866–1872.

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.

Old Believers and Spiritual Christians" (Russian: Русские диссиденты: Староверы и духовные христиане; 1881), "The Foundations of the Narodnik Movement" (Russian: Основы народничества; 1882) and "The Intelligentsia and the People in Russia's Social Life" (Russian: Интеллигенция и народ в общественной жизни России; 1885).

Regarding the artel as the basis for the rural economics in Russia, he championed the concept of peasant obschina and criticized the intelligentsia for selfishness, individualism and its inability to work among and with the people.