"The White Dove of Córdoba" by Dina Rubina tells the story of an art forger and represents a blend of adventure novel, art thriller, historical novel, and family saga. The novel spans a vast geographical and temporal territory. It narrates not only the global adventures of the art forger from Madrid, Jerusalem, and Rome to Miami, but also serves as a time travel through the past of the protagonist and his ancestors. This includes a childhood in Ukrainian-Soviet Vinnytsia with its Jewish environment, apprenticeship years in Leningrad, the protagonist's first encounters with the art world, as well as the fate of the Spanish Jews, the Reconquista, and the Inquisition (in connection with his favorite painter El Greco, whose style he imitates in a forgery), along with World War II and the Siege of Leningrad, which claimed part of his family.