Something does not seems to me there villager. Almost certain: the shtetl Jew - small shopkeeper ... Although most closely resembles Gerdt as Panikovsky
I even tried at first in a basket goose spy ...
I agree with the idea that the name of the artist, it may leave dangerous.
Glasha! And we know exactly when the picture was brought to Russia?
I think that the author must be sought among the Polish or Ukrainian Jewish artists, many of them worked in Paris, lived in a hive. And not all are great