The Great Northern War is often one of the overlooked conflicts in early modern history, despite the fact that it changed the balance of forces in Eastern Europe and led to the rise of Russia of Peter the Great, while the Swedish Empire's demise began. Alongside a number of memorable battles, this war had a number of brilliant stories and one of them is of the refugee the Swedish king Charles XII found in the Ottoman empire, which led to one of the early Russo-Turkish wars.