Petrovsky
Appearance
Petrovsky (masculine) and its feminine form Petrovskaya are Russian-language surnames. People with the surname include:
People
[edit]- Adolf Petrovsky (1887–1937), Soviet diplomat
- Boris Petrovsky (1908–2004), Soviet surgeon and politician
- Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky (1933–2023), German jazz saxophonist
- David Petrovsky (Lipetz) (also known as Max Goldfarb, Bennett, Humboldt, Brown (1886–1937), Jewish revolutionary politician, economist, journalist, general of the Red Army, and Soviet statesman
- Grigory Petrovsky (1878–1958), Ukrainian revolutionary
- Ivan Petrovsky (1901–1973), Soviet mathematician
- Kyra Petrovskaya Wayne (1918–2018), Russian-American writer
- Leonid Petrovsky (1897–1941), Soviet lieutenant general
- Nikolai Petrovsky (1837–1908), Russian diplomat
- Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (born 1962), Russian-American historian, philologist and essayist
Fictional characters
[edit]- Aleksandr Petrovsky, fictional character played by Mikhail Baryshnikov in Sex and the City