Great Northern War (Sweden Wins) Timeline?

Could we get an alternate Great Northern Timeline rolling? One that involves Sweden somehow winning the Great Northern War and preventing Russia's ascension into a Great Power? Any members well versed in the subject?
 
One way might be to continue an offensive against Russia after Narva 1700, while making overtures to get Saxony to switch sides, or at least have P-L hinder any Saxon use of its territory against Sweden.

Another might be a German-located war against Saxony, where Swedish forces use Bremen, Wismar and Vorpommern as bases in an offensive against Saxony, while Poland is left untouched.
 
Have Peter be present at Narva and end up dying. That will create chaos since he had three children, all under the age of 10 and fractions would emerge to support each one. Thus times of troubles v 2.0 while Charles heads down to Poland and take care of Poland-Saxony that will take shorter time without Russian armies around
 
An easy POD is having the Swedish army catching the Saxon Army before it can enter Poland-Lithuania and defeat it decisively, get a peace similar to Denmark and than invade Russia in 1701, with reinforcements still coming in from Sweden proper.
 
I don't think Charles XII could prevent Russian ascendancy, but he could certainly postpone it by, as has already been suggested, seeing Peter dead at Narva.
 
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