Roustam Raza

Roustam Raza, also known as Roustan or Rustam was Napoleon Bonaparte's famous mamluk bodyguard. Roustam was born in Tbilisi, Georgia to Armenian parents. At thirteen Roustam was kidnapped and sold as a slave in Cairo. The Turks gave him the name Idzhahia. The sheikh of Cairo presented him to General Napoleon Bonaparte in 1798. Roustan served as a bodyguard of Napoleon until 1814, when the Roustan married Mademoiselle Douville in Dourdan, France and refused to follow the Emperor in his exile to Elba.

On 7 December 1845, Roustam died in Dourdan.