I like it actually. When I was a kid and found out where gelatin came from, I stopped eating that shet all together, but then I got over it. It's like solidified soup idk good with hren/red horseradish which should be spicy. Not something easy to get used to though, as with any foreign food. I grew up with Russian food so that wasn't an issue.
But ya obvs Russian cuisine is a thing. Every place has a cuisine, and not all of it as all that gross. They have their own dumplings, with meat "pelmeni" or a sweet version "vareniki" with cottage cheese or cherry or potato stuffing. Potato pancakes, might be on the Jewish side, but everything's pretty much mixed. Crepes, diff pirogi like someone has said, golubtsi which is meat/rice/w.e wrapped in a cabbage leaf, stuffed bell peppers is a Russian thing too. Some of these things might have originated from other slavic countries, like Ukraine or Belarus, but back then all that shit was the same so no need to get technical. And there's like only one cold soup I know vs more hot soups, and it's my fave soup ever. ;.; That one is def Ukrainian though. It's a summer soup. There's a spinach soup and a pickle soup which are both pretty ew to me but people like it. Combo of beer + dried fish/fish jerky is pretty Russian too, and uh fatback/sala. Super good when fried then put in a soup but way too fatty personally. Otherwise, it's fun to eat with bread as a chaser for vodka at the table.