Because the couple had no children of their own and a large amount of money, they frequently gave to charity.

Yevgenia was a member of the Moscow Zemstvo Committee for Prisons, a trustee for the Alexander Asylum [ru], and a patron of art and theater.

Yevgenia also renovated the Shakhovsky-Glebov-Streshnev Estate [ru] on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street, which now houses the Helikon Opera.

[3] The village of Shakhovskaya, founded in 1901 in connection with the construction of the Moscow-Vindava railway [ru] was named in honor of Yevgenia.

She bequeathed her fortune, which she still had from real estate abroad, to a fund for helping talented children of Russian heritage.