Borsch, mashed potatoes with meat in gravy, salads, fresh fruit, vegetables, bread, pickles, tea, cookies, and cake.
Sandwiches, fresh fruit and vegetables, cookies, candy, and tea.
Blini, special raisin rolls, and tea.
Cake, cookies, and tea.
Blini and tea.
"Waffles" (wafers) and tea.
Be creative, and choose your own menu. Just be sure your guests have no excuse to go home hungry!

Main dishes:

Borsch - Serve to each guest in individual soup bowls with a dollop of sour cream and a sprinkling of fresh dill.
Meat and mashed potatoes - Bring out individual large helpings of mashed potatoes covered in meat and gravy or pass around bowls of each for your guests to dish up for themselves.

Side dishes:

Open-face sandwiches - Place a thick slice of cold meat on a diagonally cut half slice of bread. Any meat will work-- even cow tongue! Cucumber and tomato slices placed on top of the meat, garnished with a sprig of parsley or a cooked pea stuck through a toothpick, makes this beautiful sandwich complete. Make another elegant sandwich by putting caviar on a small piece of French bread.
Salad - A common, special Russian salad is a mixture of hard boiled eggs, cooked corn, crab sticks, onion, and sometimes dry bread cubes with a mayonnaise dressing. Other salads are shredded carrots with a vinegar dressing, cut cabbage, onion, and small pieces of meat with a mayo dressing, cubed cucumbers and tomatoes tossed with fresh dill, or marinated mushrooms.

Sweets:

Cookies and candy - Place an assortment of cookies and individually wrapped chocolates in a basket or bowl for your tea table. Typically the cookies would be store bought butter cookies. "Waffles" (wafers) are also a popular treat.
Cake - My favorite Russian cake is covered with fruit. Make a heavy, white cake from scratch. Do not use a cake mix! Before baking cover the top with fruit such as sliced apricots, peaches, cherries, or plum preserves.
Fruit cobbler - Serve your guests a cobbler made with a bread-like bottom crust covered with fruit such as fresh strawberries with a lattice top crust. Sprinkle with course sugar before baking.

Other:

Bread - A plate stacked with bread is common. Russia has two main kinds of bread - chewy, white bread and dark, sour bread. Place a stack of each kind on a plate and cover with a paper napkin to keep it fresh.
Rolls - Homemade, fresh from the oven rolls - what a treat! Make your favorite white bread recipe, and be creative in forming it. Try making a dent in the top of the dough and filling it with raisins, or serve a traditional Russian sweet-dough roll filled with poppy seeds. To make a sweet-dough roll even more special, sprinkle course sugar on the top before baking.
Pirogue or piroshki - These are delicious fried, filled breads. Three fillings we have had are cabbage, boiled eggs and green onion, and mashed potatoes.
Blini - This is the Russian version of pancakes. Comparable to thin crepes, the Russian cooks make blini quite large and

fold them in half a few times or role them up. Serve blini with a runny berry jam. For fun give each of your guests an individual dish of jam. Pick them up with your fingers, dip in jam, and enjoy!
Fruit - Arrange a plate of thinly sliced oranges and apples along with whole apricots, cherries, and strawberries.
Vegetables - Since gardening is a necessary way of life for most Russians, it is common to be served fresh garden produce. Serve your guests sliced tomatoes, cucumbers, and sweet peppers. To make your plate of sliced vegetables more special, peel your cucumbers leaving thin strips of peel still on them. Then cut the cucumbers at an angle to make oval slices.
Pickles and relishes - Put small plates of pickled cucumbers and tomatoes as well as little bowls of pickled relishes on your tea table.