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Roustam Raza Khachaturian Hovnani
(1780—1845)

The first body guard of Napoleon. Born in Tiflis 1780, died in Durdan, France 1845. Was captured and sold into slavery by the Tatars, ending up in Egypt and mamlukized. He was in the service of Sheikh Bakr who gifted him to Napoleon as a bodyguard which he served for 16 years and participated in many of the latter's exploits. When Napoleon entered into Moscow, Rostom requested the Emperor to bypass the Armenian quarter of the town. IN 1814 when Napoleon was exiled to Elba he slipped out and ended in Persia from where he travelled back to his native city of Tiflis. He took part in many of the exploits of the Russians such as the Russo-Persian war of 1826. He once again emerged in France and took part in the funeral procession of Napoleon's remains, and where he stayed for the rest of his life and wrote his memoirs; " Memoirs of the Mamluk Roustam of Napoleon I", a work that many have used in their search for the eperor's biography.

Ajman, 1971, Napoleon

Manama, 1970, Napoleon at Ratisbon