His cadre name was Kobozev (Russian: Кобозев) Bogdanovich was born on April 1, 1849, in Nikolskoye, in Toropetsky Uyezd, Pskov Governorate, into a noble family.
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.
In 1881, Bogdanovich went to Siberia to prepare the Krasnoyarsk - Kazan section of the route for escaping prisoners and exiles.
On May 28 the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, and Bogdanovich died in Shlisselburg Fortress of tuberculosis on July 18, 1888.