The project offers to examine the Soviet era through private individuals. Rare works and self-portraits bring back into focus artists whose quiet freedom has long remained on the periphery of history. At the center of the exhibition is a generation of authors who grew up alongside the avant-garde school and the Higher Artistic and Technical Workshops but chose a more intimate way to speak about the time. They were interested in a person without a heroic mask: focused, contemplative, fragile, sometimes ironic. Instead of a grand image of the era, a circle of friends, relatives, and the artists themselves emerges - those who lived within the system but did not dissolve within its framework. The works convey a connection to European modernism, respect for the lessons of teachers, and a desire to find their own plastic language. The portraits become a conversation about character and the freedom of perspective. Many works came from family archives and private collections, making the encounter with them akin to discovering a little-known chapter of art. Where to go in Moscow today is known by KUDAGO.