Peter Boyko - was born on April 25, 1954, in the city of Priluki, Chernihiv region. From childhood, he was fond of drawing and painting.

Somewhere from the age of five to this day, Peter Boyko is an ardent collector. In his private housing museum, there are hundreds of samples of various kinds of paintings and antiquities. In his youth, he related himself to the hippie movement, traveled a lot. For his rebellious anti-Soviet behavior, he was repeatedly detained by police and KGB. Given the opposition's outlook on life, he was sent to military service in the Arkhangelsk region in the "construction battalion", at the logging site.

Pictures of Peter Boyko can be seen both at his home and in private collections of art lovers from Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Germany, Israel, the USA. His work on the tragedy of September 11, 2001, was personally presented to Carlos Pascual during a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2008.