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Line 3: \| image = Roustam - Vernet.jpg \| image_size = \| alt = \| caption = "Portrait of Roustam Raza, the mamluck of Napoleon" by [[Horace Vernet]], 1810 \| birth_name = ~~Rostom~~Rostam \| birth_date = 1783 \| birth_place = [[Tiflis]], [[Kingdom of Kartli~~]], [[Georgia (country)~~\|~~Georgia~~Kartli]] \| death_date = December 7, {{death year and age\|1845\|1783}} \| death_place = [[Dourdan]], [[July Monarchy\|France]] \| body_discovered = \| death_cause = \| resting_place = \| resting_place_coordinates = <!-- {{coord\|LAT\|LONG\|display=inline,title}} --> \| residence = \| nationality =[[Georgia (country)\|Georgia]]n-[[Armenia]]n<ref>[http://militera.lib.ru/memo/french/raza_r/index.html «Моя жизнь рядом с Наполеоном: Воспоминания мамлюка Рустама Раза, армянина»] / ֆրանսերենից Գրիգոր Ջանիկյանի և Իրինա Քարումյանի թարգմանությամբ Երևան, Նաիրի հրատարակչություն, 1997 {{ref-ru}}</ref> \| nationality = \| ethnicity = [[Armenians\|Armenian]]<ref>[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k54264475.image.r=roustam.langEN.f66.pagination Souvenirs de Roustam…]: «''Il m’a beaucoup regardé, en me disant si je parle Arménien ? Je dis que oui, '''mème j'élais Arménien. Il me dit en mème langage'''''»</ref> \| citizenship = France \| other_names = \| known_for = \| education = \| alma_mater = \| employer = \| occupation = \| years_active = \| home_town = \| salary = \| networth = \| height = \| weight = \| title = \| term = \| predecessor = \| successor = \| party = \| opponents = \| boards = \| religion = \| spouse = Alexandrine Douville \| partner = \| children = Achille \| relations = ~~\| ethnicity = [[Armenians\|Armenian]]~~ \| callsign = \| awards = \| signature = \| website = \| footnotes = \| box_width = }} [[Image:Roustan.jpg\|thumb\|right\|Depiction of Roustam Raza in traditional mamluk uniform.]] '''Roustam Raza''', also known as ''~~Roustam~~Roustan'' or ''Rustam'' (~~Georgian: როსტომი;~~ 1783 – 7 December 1845), was [[Napoleon]]'s [[mamluk~~]]-[[armenians\|armenian~~]] bodyguard.<ref>{{cite news\| url=~~https~~http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9805E0DD1E3EE033A25754C0A9639C946096D6CF \| work=The New York Times \| title=NAPOLEON AS HIS MAMELUKE SERVANT SAW HIM; Memoirs of Roustam Come to Light---Intimate Anecdotes of the Emperor by His Personal Attendant, Whom Bonaparte Brought Back with Him from Egypt and Who Served Him for 17 Years \| date=7 May 1911}}</ref> Roustam was born in [[Tbilisi]], [[Kingdom of Kartli and Kakheti\|Georgia]], to [[Armenians\|Armenian]] parents. At thirteen Roustam was kidnapped and sold as a [[slavery\|slave]] in [[Cairo]]. The [[Ottoman Empire\|Turks]] gave him the name Idzhahia. The sheikh of Cairo presented him to General Napoleon Bonaparte in 1798. ~~Roustam~~Roustan 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]].<ref>Roustam, mameluck de Napoléon. D'après des mémoires et de nombreux documents inédits tirés des Archives Nationales et des Archives du ministère de la Guerre. [Ed.Hector Fleischmann]. — Paris: Albert Méricant, 1910. — 384 pp. {{fr icon}}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|url=http://www.napoleon-series.org/military/organization/c_mameluks1.html\|publisher=www.napoleon-series.org\|author=[[Alexander Mikaberidze]]\|title= The Georgian Mameluks in Egypt\|date=September 9, 2001\|accessdate=}}</ref> On 7 December 1845, Roustam died in Dourdan.<ref>Registre d'état civil de [[Dourdan]] (1845), Archives départementales de l'[[Essonne]]</ref> His memoirs of the service to Napoleon were first published in 1888. Line 34 ⟶ 66: {{Authority control}} {{Persondata \| name = Roustam Raza \| alternative names = \| short description = Bodyguard of Napoleon \| date of birth = 1782 or 1783 \| place of birth = [[Tiflis]], [[Georgia (country)\|Georgia]] \| date of death = December 7, 1845 \| place of death = [[Dourdan]], [[France]] }} [[Category:First French Empire]] [[Category:Bodyguards]]