Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A 1700 ya shiga rundunar Rasha a harin da ta kai wa Narva a lokacin barkewar Babban Yakin Arewa, amma Sarki Charles XII na Sweden ya kore shi daga mukaminsa a Estonia. Daga nan ya zama kwamandan sojojin Rasha da ke yaƙi da sojojin Sweden a lardunan Baltic. Kanar W. A. Schlippenbach ya kayar da Sheremetev a Rauge a watan Satumbar 1701, amma 'yan Rasha sun juya teburin a kan Schlippenbach (yanzu Manjo-Janar) a Erastfer
a watan Disamba na shekara ta 1701. Wannan nasarar ta sami Sheremetev taken marshal, kuma wata nasarar Rasha ta biyo baya a yakin Hummelshof a watan Yulin 1702. Harin sojojin Sheremetev a kan Marienburg (Agusta 1702) ya sa Martha Skavronskaya ta zo kotun tsar, inda daga baya ta zama Empress Catherine I (ta yi sarauta 1725-1727).