This work is indisputably in the Public Domain as Rasputin died in 1916. Works taken before that date fall into the PD even in the most generous US copyright term, however, here is proof that it is also PD in Russia (where it was taken, and assumably the nationality of the photographer): Direction to Source of Copyright Law (incidentally by a former law school classmate) and the actual Russian legislation, see Article 27 (translated into English).
This work is in the public domain in Russia according to article 1256 of Book IV of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation No. 230-FZ of December 18, 2006.
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