Roustam Raza

Roustam Raza
"Portrait of Roustam Raza, the mamluck of Napoleon", 1810
Born	Rostom 1783 Tiflis, Kingdom of Kartli, Georgia
Died	December 7, 1845 (aged 61–62) Dourdan, France
Nationality	Georgian-Armenian
Citizenship	France
Spouse(s)	Alexandrine Douville
Children	Achille

Roustam Raza, also known as Roustam or Rustam (Georgian: როსტომი; 1783 – 7 December 1845), was Napoleon's mamluk-armenian bodyguard. Roustam was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. 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. Roustam served as a bodyguard of Napoleon until 1814, when he married Mademoiselle Douville in Dourdan and refused to follow the Emperor in his exile to Elba after the first Bourbon Restoration.

On 7 December 1845, Roustam died in Dourdan. His memoirs of the service to Napoleon were first published in 1888.