Peter Vronsky  was born in Toronto,

He is the creator of a body of formal video art works exhibited in the 1980s internationally, a former Sony Corporation artist-in-residence, a cited historian of Lee Harvey Oswald's journey to the USSR in 1959-1962, and the author of the true crime - history bestseller:  Serial Killers:  The Method and Madness of Monsters  (2004), a definitive history of serial murder from ancient times to the current age.  The sequel, Female Serial Killers:  How and Why Women Become Monsters,  was published by Berkley Books - Penguin-US in 2007.

Vronsky is a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department of the University of Toronto in the fields of criminal justice history and intelligence in international relations.  He is currently completing his doctoral thesis on the origins of the Canadian army and secret services during the Civil War and Fenian Threat, 1858 - 1866.  His study focuses on the 1866 battle near Fort Erie, Ontario fought by Canadian volunteers to stop a 1000 strong invasion force of heavily armed Fenian Irish-American insurgents. The dissertation will be published in 2011 as Ridgeway 1866!  Limestone Ridge & The Maple Leaf Forever: The American Fenian Invasion and the Forgotten Battle That Made Canada,  a volume in Penguin Canada's  Turning Points in Canadian History series, edited by Robert Bothwell and Margaret Macmillan.  

Vronsky currently lectures in the International Relations, the history of espionage, the American Civil War and the Third Reich at Ryerson University.

Vronsky is the producer-writer-director of the acclaimed feature documentary about underground Stalinism in the last days of Soviet Russia: Mondo Moscow: The Art & Magic of Not Being There (1992), produced for TV Ontario and broadcast in City-TV's primetime movie slot for four years running. He was the director of Crash'n'Burn (1977)--an early look at Punk Rock in Toronto and on the road in New York.   

He was the co-writer of the National Film Board of Canada feature documentary The Un-Canadians (1996).  Vronsky is also the director of a dramatic feature film: Bad Company (1978).  

In between his own independent productions, Peter Vronsky has worked as a production manager, line producer, director of photography and new media artist.  He field-produced Venice and Adriatic Region coverage for CNN and shot undercover and hidden camera sequences for CTV's W5 and CBC's The Fifth Estate, investigative TV programs.

Vronsky's last undercover shoot took him to the troubled breakaway republic of Chechnya, where his hidden cameras documented the secret market for nuclear weapons materials for a CTV-Discovery Channel USA-FujiTv-ORF Stornoway Productions co-production of The Hunt For Red Mercury (1993). 

Vronsky was the Director of Photography on I'll Fly Away Home (2004) and Life Could Be A Dream (2002), feature documentaries for Bravo Canada/Bravo USA. 

In  2000 Vronsky was the founding Bureau Chief of the Queens Park/Toronto Bureau of Epress.ca, Canada's first officially accredited internet streaming video news portal.  Later that year he joined GlobalNetFinancial.com, a Los Angeles-based global investment streaming video news and online trading platform with sites in Europe and North America, where he was their Broadband Content Specialist. GlobalNetFinancial perished in the 2001 dot-com stock market collapse. Vronsky is highly experienced in convergence of television and video with the Internet, non-linear interactive scripting and online streaming content design.

In 1997-2000 Vronsky was the Head of Documentary and English Language Production in Italy for Panavideo, a service producer for RAI, the Italian national television broadcasting network.  Vronsky produced live and taped television broadcasts in the Venice region and is an expert on the logistics of film and video production management in the water-bound city. 

Vronsky has extensive international production experience as a producer, director and/or director of photography on locations in Russia, Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Netherlands, UK, Austria, former Yugoslavia, Jamaica, South Africa, and in North America. 

 
Peter Vronsky's 1991-1992 research and journey to the USSR to locate a series of never-before-interviewed witnesses to accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald's life there is a subject in professor John Newman's academic study of Oswald's alleged CIA connections (Oswald and the CIA.)  The results of Vronsky's research and interviews have been featured in numerous books and television programs, including Norman Mailer's Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery, Vincent Bugliosi's 2007 Reclaiming History:  The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, best-selling author David Lifton's upcoming biography of Oswald, and PBS's definitive 1993 television biography of Oswald produced by Frontline.  Vronsky maintains an often cited website focusing on Oswald's life in the USSR and is a recognized authority on Lee Harvey Oswald's time in the USSR.
(See: Lee Harvey  Oswald In Russia Website )

Vronsky has more than twenty years of experience in the field of digital new media, starting with his role as Artist-in-Residence at the Sony Corporation in 1983-85 where he experimented with Sony's then state-of-the-art digital graphics and interactive laser optical systems.  He created a number of formal experimental video art works and new media installations, exhibited internationally and in Canada, including a group showing at the Art Gallery of Ontario and at Canada House in London, England.

Peter Vronsky is fluent in English, Russian and Italian, and currently resides in Toronto Canada and Venice Italy.