Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Yaƙin Narva ya yi mummunan rauni ga Peter the Great, amma sauyawar sojojin Charles XII zuwa barazanar Poland-Saxon ba da daɗewa ba bayan haka ya ba shi damar sake tattarawa da sake samun ƙasa a lardunan Baltic. Nasarar Rasha a Erastfer
da Nöteborg (Shlisselburg) sun ba da damar shiga Ingria a cikin 1703, inda Peter ya kame sansanin soja na Sweden na Nyen, yana tsaron bakin Kogin Neva. Godiya ga Janar Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt, wanda sojojinsa suka fi karfin Rasha a yakin Gemäuerthof da Jakobstadt, Sweden ta sami damar kula da yawancin lardunan Baltic. Kafin ya tafi yaƙi, Peter ya yi shirye-shirye don rundunar ruwa da kuma rundunar sojoji na zamani, da suka dogara ne a kan sojojin da aka horar da su wajen yin amfani da bindigogi.