Career
From 10 December 1924 until 31 January 1930, Petrovsky was the Plenipotentiary Representative of the Soviet Union in Estonia. From 31 January 1930 to 21 December 1930, he was the Plenipotentiary Representative of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics in Lithuania. From 21 December 1930 until 1 April 1933, he was the Plenipotentiary Representative of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics in Persia.
From 1 April 1933 until 10 November 1935, he was the Plenipotentiary Representative of the Soviet Union in Austria, with concurrent accreditation as the Plenipotentiary Representative of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics in Hungary.
Petrovsky was arrested during Joseph Stalin"s Great Purge in 1937.