Again, all these restores are fabulous.
As for the question if it's a man or woman, here are my 2 cents worth of info - 1) the thingy the sitting person is holding is supposed to be some kind of braided material and cloth remnants. I am not sure of the usage, but I found that on one of the sites someone was kind enough to post. 2) the features do look masculine to me, especially the hands, shoulder, the way the baby is being held 3) the most telling one is the stance for sitting. Not many women back in "the old days" would sit with their legs apart, even if they were wearing a dress.
I think I am going with the people that said it was a man, after all I can't see these employer's (the rich grand gentleman) allowing the grama, the mother, the father and the little baby in the house for pictures. If the mother and father worked there, I could understand them, but I think that would be too generous, especially for the time period of 1899 ish and the current times of the czarist regime and the uprisings of the Bolsheviks. That being said, if the mom and dad worked, who'd look after the baby. Maybe it was the grama. ei-yie-yie did I just talk myself out of my choice. LOL. Oh well.
I thank you all for the beautiful work you did and all the help you gave me.
