[4] After school he entered the economic department of the University of Pereslavl at the Institute of Program Systems of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

[5] During the theatrical festival, he took part in the master classes of teachers of the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts - GITIS and made his final choice.

[7] Based on the results of diploma theatricals, he received an offer from Aleksandr Kalyagin about enrollment in the troupe of the Moscow theatre "Et Cetera".

In the 2015 crime drama serial The Method produced by Alexander Tsekalo's Sreda, Petrov played the supporting role of police officer Zhenya.

In this horror-fantasy picture, loosely based on Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, he portrayed writer Nikolai Gogol.

Film news and database website Kinopoisk named Alexander Petrov as the most popular Russian actor of 2017.