Background
Roustam was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, to Armenian parents.
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.
On 7 December 1845, Roustam died in Dourdan.
His memoirs of the service to Napoleon were first published in 1888.
