Swedish Empire

POD: Charles XII successfully gains the support of the Cossacks, Tartars and Ottomans in his campaign against Russian Tsar, Peter the Great in 1709. The combined Swedish, Cossack, Tartar and Ottoman forces are able to overcome the Russian redoubts at Poltava and march on to take Kharkhov and Smolensk within 6 months. Peter is forced to sue for peace when he is besieged in Moscow. Russia is force to cede 1000 square miles of Northern Russia, including Novgorod, and all of Karelia to Sweden. Sweden remains a major European power.