Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Da yake fitowa daga babban dangin Repnin, Anikita yana ɗaya daga cikin abokan haɗin gwiwar Peter the Great, wanda ya girma tare da shi. A yayin tashin hankali na Sophian na 1689, ya yi tsaron Bitrus a cikin gidan sufi na Troitsa, kuma daga baya ya shiga cikin binciken Azov, wanda a lokacin aka daukaka shi zuwa matsayin janar. Ya shiga cikin dukkan manyan alkawurran na Babban Yakin Arewa. Charles XII ya ci nasara a Holowczyn, an rage shi zuwa matsayi, amma an gafarta masa a matsayin lada ga ƙarfin hali
a Lesnaya kuma ya dawo da dukkan mutuncin da ya rasa. A Poltava ya umurci cibiyar. Daga Ukraine an tura shi zuwa lardunan Baltic kuma an sanya shi Gwamna Janar na farko na Riga bayan kama shi a 1710. A shekara ta 1724 ya gaji mashahurin ɗan lokaci, Menshikov, a matsayin ministan yaƙi. Catherine Na sanya shi mai filin-marshal.