Adolf Petrovsky

Adolf Petrovsky

Adolf Markovich Petrovsky (Russian: Адольф Маркович Петровский; 1887 – 17 September 1937)[1] was a Soviet diplomat.

Career

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Petrovsky was born in 1887 in Warsaw, then part of Vistula Land in the Russian Empire.[2] 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 USSR in Lithuania. From 21 December 1930 until 1 April 1933, he was the Plenipotentiary Representative of the USSR in Persia.[2]

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 USSR in Hungary.[2]

Petrovsky was arrested during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge in 1937.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Справочник по истории Коммунистической партии и Советского Союза 1898–1991
  2. ^ a b c d "03559" Петровский Адольф Маркович (in Russian). Справочник по истории Коммунистической партии и Советского Союза 1898–1991. Retrieved 2009-03-12.
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Plenipotentiary Representative of the Soviet Union in Estonia
1924–1930
Succeeded by
Preceded by Plenipotentiary Representative of the Soviet Union in Lithuania
1930
Succeeded by
Preceded by Plenipotentiary Representative of the Soviet Union in Persia
1930–1933
Succeeded by
Preceded by Plenipotentiary Representative of the Soviet Union in Austria and Hungary
1933–1935
Succeeded by