Wladimir Zezulin

Funeral services for Dr. Wladimir Zezulin will be conducted at St. Seraphim Russian Orthodox Church in Sea Cliff, N.Y. on Sunday August 10 right after liturgy. Interment will follow in the cemetery of the Holy Dormition Novo-Diveyevo Convent in Nanuet, N.Y. on Monday August 11.
Dr. Wladimir Zezulin, a resident of Glen Cove, N.Y. and Palm Coast, Florida died at his home in Glen Cove on August 7, 2014. He was born on May 11, 1923 in Irshava (near Mukachevo), Czechoslovakia. His father, Jakow Zezulin, was a White Russian émigré officer and a judge in Czechoslovakia. His mother, Nina Shelestove (neé Moroz) was raised in Lviv and was a court secretary. He went to German schools in Czechoslovakia and began medical school there. He graduated from Boston University Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts in 1952. Dr. Zezulin was a radiologist at the Department of Radiology at Lahey Clinic in Boston (now Burlington, Mass.) and at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He wrote articles on medical research and was a lecturer at Harvard Medical School. He helped many Russian émigrés and often arranged their medical care.
Dr. Zezulin resided in Framingham and was a parishioner and parish council member of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Epiphany in Roslindale. He was active in anti-communist White Russian émigré organizations, in particular the Narodno Trudovoj Soyuz (NTS). He participated in the Organization of Russian Compatriots established after the fall of the USSR and was in Moscow in front of the White House at the time of the 1991 failed coup. He enjoyed travel to Russia and the Czech Republic after the fall of communism.
He is survived by his wife Marta Bilek, son and daughter-in-law Dimitry and Nina Shishkoff, grandchildren Alexandra, Theodore, and Nicholas Shishkoff, sisters-in-law Alexandra Zezulin and Maria Jordan, stepson Robert Bilek and his wife Karyna Ahanisian and their children, and many nieces and nephews and great-nieces and great-nephews.
Dr. Zezulin was preceded in death by his parents, his brother Serge Zezulin and his wife Anna (neé Shishkoff). The Whitting Funeral Home in Glen Head, New York is in charge of the arrangements.