He might -- if enough people become aware. Some things only get written back millennia after the fact. I hope, because in the original linked article, the author pointed out how strange it ultimately is that the man who chose not to end all life as we know it is unknown, while everyone knows who Paris Hilton is.

In university, I read an alternate version of the story of the Vandals sacking Rome, this one written from primary documents of the time. In that version , the Vandals were refugees, promised land in exchange for military service, and then mistreated (forced to eat rotten food, forced to sell their children into slavery, etc.) After Rome went back on its promises a second time, they sacked the city out of sheer desperation.

Old textbooks used to take it as a given that the Vandals were simple villains of history, who grabbed an opportunity when they saw it.

I think of this a lot, as I'm working on trying to resurrect queer history from the original records. And maybe in the future, people like Petrov will be read about and understood, and only the most in-depth historical scholars of the period will have heard of Paris Hilton (and then only in the context of media studies).