Author of numerous publications of a political and economic nature published in a number of newspapers: Kievlyanin, Kievskoye slovo in the magazine Life and Art (as a staff member), in the newspapers Podolyanin, Svet, Moskovskiye Vedomosti, Novoye Vremya, Odessa Leaf and others.

Co-founder and deputy chairman (from 1912 onwards, chairman) of the Kiev Club of Russian Nationalists (1908–1918), a member of the All-Russian National Union (1912–1918) and its General Council (1912–1915).

IV State Duma deputy in the nationalist faction and the moderate right (1912–1915).

Deputy chairman of Russian voters, nonpartisan unit (1919).

A member of the White movement in the South of Russia, Savenko became Head of the Kiev branch of OSVAG [ru] (an intelligence and propaganda arm of the White military) and actual head of Kiev in autumn 1919 after the Volunteer Army captured the city.